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johntm93
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31 July 2010 at 5:23am | IP Logged

frenkeld wrote:

Now I am having trouble with the original hypothesis, because one of its assumptions, that "Chinese people are better at math" seems not to be easily upheld by the historical facts. My guess is that they just have a more rigorous school program in math. What has been done to the school math curricula in some Western countries makes this plausible enough.

The Chinese are in school many more days per year than us Americans, if I recall correctly.

Of course, math skills do depend a lot on how smart you are, language is probably just the icing on the cake, if it does truly have any effect at all.

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