Scientific Study Finds that Americans born between 1995-2005 are....

[oh the horror]

Some of the worlds least skilled people.



Read on:
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/6852650

[Akrazotile]

Top 5 scores in literacy: 1) Japan 2) Finland 3) Netherlands 4) Australia 5) Sweden
The United States placed at #17 out of 23.

Top 5 scores in numeracy: 1) Japan 2) Finland 3) Flanders (Belgium) 4) Netherlands 5) Sweden

The United States placed at #21 out of 23.

Top 5 scores in PS-TRE: 1) Japan 2) Finland 3) Australia 4) Sweden 5) Norway

The United States placed #18 out of 20.


We are all equal :bowdown:

[Jailblazers7]

Sure, it's alarming but a country like Japan has a rigorous education system designed to murder standardized testing. I don't think statistics like this are crazy alarming but they are something to be concerned about.

[Akrazotile]

The results were shocking to researchers as American millennials were found to be the most educated generation ever, according to the study.

"We really thought [U.S.] Millennials would do better than the general adult population, either compared to older coworkers in the U.S. or to the same age group in other countries," Madeline Goodman, an ETS researcher who worked on the study, told Fo

The study concludes that a more expensive and expansive education "may not hold all the answers."

Changing demographics FTW :rockon:

Pump more money into inner city schools with kids whose cultural upbringing will instill absolutely no enouragement to use any educational resources whatsoever :bowdown:



The answer is just throwing more govt money at it money :bowdown:


No values :bowdown:

No standard :bowdown:

Disagree omg your racissss:bowdown:

MURICA :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown:

[KingBeasley08]

Part of it is due to our need to make all kids go to school and college. You have no idea how many dumbasses there are that shouldn't be in school

[JerrySeinfeld]

Pump more money into inner city schools with kids whose cultural upbringing will instill absolutely no enouragement to use any educational resources whatsoever :bowdown:

The answer is just throwing more govt money at it money :bowdown:

Take from the rich :bowdown:

No values :bowdown:

No standard :bowdown:

Disagree omg your racissss:bowdown:

MURICA :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown:

:bowdown:

[joe]

One thing that springs to mind is the lack of playing outside. I am not the most skilled person ever, but you had to improvise a little bit when you were out in the woods with your friends. Or we would play with my Uncles tools and learn how to hammer. Chopped wood, etc. I did play a lot of video games myself, but it seems my younger cousins play even more.

[Akrazotile]

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[ThePhantomCreep]

Changing demographics FTW :rockon:

Pump more money into inner city schools with kids whose cultural upbringing will instill absolutely no enouragement to use any educational resources whatsoever :bowdown:

Are you suggesting the state and federal governments slash school funding to the bone? The Koch Brothers need another yatch, don't they? You sniveling turd.


http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51iCoWIekpL.jpg


https://peltast.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/ronpaulitshappening.gif

A widely discredited book, treated as gospel by shithead bigots such as yourself. I use it to line my birdcages.

[Akrazotile]

This is such a dumb book. When black kids are raised by white parents them falling behind goes away. All this book proves is what everybody already knows. Theres a strain of awful culture in parts of America that needs to be rooted out somehow.



Not debating the merits of the book, just posting how lulzy it is that it's actually happening just as predicted.

[BurningHammer]

We are all equal :bowdown:
Finland :rockon:

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3758/1668/1600/sweden.jpg

[fiddy]

http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/showthread.php?t=367649

[ace23]

"Least skilled" I don't see the US ranking low anywhere. What a dumbass title :oldlol:

[ThePhantomCreep]

Like one has anything to do with the other?
Theres little evidence that funding is the real problem. The problem is cultural.

The problem is economics--the US has the second highest child poverty rate of any developed nation.

[Giaodollo]

Finland :rockon:

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3758/1668/1600/sweden.jpg

Sweden > Finland

I can scientifically prove that.

[Giaodollo]

Thats bullshit. Most countries literally have a lower average income than the American poverty rate. Really, most of these international statistics about education and stuff are bullshit. For example the US has the highest college graduation rate of maybe all but four countries, and the highest median income of all but three, so the idea that we're falling behind doesnt line up with reality.

I think the key in what he said was in comparison to developed nations. US has a very rich middle class and so on but those stuck in minimum salary doesn't have a lot going on for them and compared to other "developed" countries US has a lot of people in the bottom percentile.

I went through the last OCED report and US is defintely not top 4 in college graduation. US college graduation rate is slipping every year currently and there is I think 15 countries that has higher graduation rate.

[ILLsmak]

Thats bullshit. Most countries literally have a lower average income than the American poverty rate. Really, most of these international statistics about education and stuff are bullshit. For example the US has the highest college graduation rate of maybe all but four countries, and the highest median income of all but three, so the idea that we're falling behind doesnt line up with reality.

I still am a conspiracy theorist. I think America is hella brainwashed and that they want people to be dumb. I'd call that the net generation.

Funny because with the internet, the ability to find information has risen... the internet can be used to put info out there that cannot be suppressed (for instance, nudie leaks or wikileaks), but most people stay in the 'controlled' area and thus get brainwashed.

We've got it where people don't even look for news anymore, they just read what's fed to them. Some sensationalist articles about celebs and a few funny cat vids.

It's only gonna get worse, trust me.

Not to mention our country is slipping hard in product quality, too. We're imploding.

-Smak

[Akrazotile]

I still am a conspiracy theorist. I think America is hella brainwashed[/B] and that they want people to be dumb. I'd call that the net generation.

Funny because with the internet, the ability to find information has risen... the internet can be used to put info out there that cannot be suppressed (for instance, nudie leaks or wikileaks), but most people stay in the 'controlled' area and thus get brainwashed.

We've got it where people don't even look for news anymore, they just read what's fed to them. Some sensationalist articles about celebs and a few funny cat vids.

It's only gonna get worse, trust me.

Not to mention our country is slipping hard in product quality, too. We're imploding.

-Smak


The masses have always generally been like this although when you're working long hours laboring just to survive and have far more limited access to information as was the case in yesteryear, it's somewhat understandable.

People today have a shitload of free time, even when they're ON the clock, and they STILL do nothing but fill their senses with the most mindless shit. They don't even have to be brainwashed to do this, they apparently just choose it on their own.

That's just the way it is. Aww yeah.

Things will (always) be the same.

[ThePhantomCreep]

Thats bullshit. Most countries literally have a lower average income than the American poverty rate. Really, most of these international statistics about education and stuff are bullshit. For example the US has the highest college graduation rate of maybe all but four countries, and the highest median income of all but three, so the idea that we're falling behind doesnt line up with reality.

Read: international statistics are BS... except those that cast the US in a positive light.

[KingBeasley08]

Thats bullshit. Most countries literally have a lower average income than the American poverty rate. Really, most of these international statistics about education and stuff are bullshit. For example the US has the highest college graduation rate of maybe all but four countries, and the highest median income of all but three, so the idea that we're falling behind doesnt line up with reality.
This is true. Americans in general are very rich compared to the rest of the world. I think we have the fourth highest median income worldwide. Three countries higher have like a population of 1 million combined :lol

[MavsSuperFan]

Not surprising, for anyone who has ever traveled to richer areas of Asia or the Nordic countries. The cultures are far more conducive to raising quality people.

[Lebron23]

Japan = Number One

[fiddy]

Japan = Number One
Soulless physically underdeveloped weird bastards.

[kurple]

This is true. Americans in general are very rich compared to the rest of the world. I think we have the fourth highest median income worldwide. Three countries higher have like a population of 1 million combined :lol
lol, median income

[LJJ]

More like Americans born between 1975-2015 M I RITE? :cheers:

[KyrieTheFuture]

This is true. Americans in general are very rich compared to the rest of the world. I think we have the fourth highest median income worldwide. Three countries higher have like a population of 1 million combined :lol
I assure you our median income is heavily weighted on the rich end by a few significant parties.

[Jailblazers7]

I assure you our median income is heavily weighted on the rich end by a few significant parties.

Yeah but the median isn't effected by those high incomes. It's the exact middle lol. The mean income is like 20k higher than the median which helps show the income inequality we have in the US.

[KingBeasley08]

lol, median income
What's wrong with median income? And before you say it, the top 1% has barely any effect on median, only mean

Median being pretty high means that there are more rich people in the US than people think

[KyrieTheFuture]

Yeah but the median isn't effected by those high incomes. It's the exact middle lol. The mean income is like 20k higher than the median which helps show the income inequality we have in the US.
Lol whoops mah bad