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In math, reading and problem-solving using technologyall skills considered critical for global competitiveness and economic strengthAmerican adults scored below the international average on a global test, according to results released Tuesday.
Adults in Japan, Canada, Australia, Finland and multiple other countries scored significantly higher than the United States in all three areas on the test. Beyond basic reading and math, respondents were tested on activities such as calculating mileage reimbursement due to a salesman, sorting email and comparing food expiration dates on grocery store tags.
Not only did Americans score poorly compared to many international competitors, the findings reinforced just how large the gap is between American high- and low-skilled workers and how hard it is to move ahead when your parents haven't."
*The study, called the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, found that it was easier on average to overcome this and other barriers to literacy overseas than in the United States."
* The United States will have a tough time catching up because money at the state and local level, a major source of education funding, has been slashed in recent years, said Jacob Kirkegaard, an economist with the Peterson Institute for International Economics."
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-adults-score-average-worldwide.html
The Midway Rebel
(2,191 posts)wut? lol.
According to environmental determinism theory, we are the victims of our own success, we have allowed too many of the dumb ones to prolifically breed.
progressoid
(49,992 posts)USA! USA! USA!
damnedifIknow
(3,183 posts)Okay, 80 feet may be a stretch.
progressoid
(49,992 posts)King_Klonopin
(1,306 posts)Opinions that are validated by our own intuition and by
those endowed people who agree with us.
world wide wally
(21,751 posts)damnedifIknow
(3,183 posts)I agree.