Rishab Aiyer Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 22:29 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: >> The best students are also often >> foreigners, who were not subjected to and destroyed by the abysmal public >> primary/secondary education system. > > selection bias. these foreigners are the top few of their own countries > who managed to survive their own abysmal systems.
Yah, that's probably right. Optimism hopes that somewhere, the education system doesn't suck, but realism says that's not likely... Perry
