[vecter]

Wait, the US overall is ranked 18th out of approximately 50 countries (on the first chart for Math + Science). Obviously some American demographics are doing better, but across all demographics, the US scores are not excellent and not near the top.

[TeaBrain]

According to the chart, the American scores amongst the internationally high performing demographic categories are exceptional. The overall score is only dragged down due to demographic categories that perform low internationally.

[thomassmith65]

It's nice that that partition (ie: ethnicity) seems to cheer people up (or perhaps not, depending on how one thinks about it).

On the other hand, there's probably some partition - even if it's preference of {boxers, briefs, lingerie, 'commando'} - for any academic field by which one nation is better for each part.

It is possible that every group of immigrants to America is better at baking strudel than its corresponding group in Germany. Still more likely to find good German strudel.

[bpodgursky]

The point is that euopean americans perform strongly compared to europeans, asian americans perform strongly among asians, and black americans perform strongly compared to majority-black countries. Each demographic as the top of demographic peers internationally.

[knallfrosch]

> Each demographic as the top of demographic peers internationally.

Does this hold true if we do the same for other countries?

[carabiner]

Yes, and I don't think this is racism any more than other DEI/education initiatives that focus on one demographic more vs. another. Everyone talks about trying to get more blacks into gifted programs or selective high schools like Stuyvesant. This is scoping the problem, nothing more.