Han Chinese still the smartest in the world.

PISA the most important test in the world has just released their 2012 test results.

The latest result shows that Shanghai China came first in all three areas tested, replicating the same ranking from 2009 PISA, Singapore and Hong Kong came 2nd and 3rd for all three areas of tested.

East Asian countries dominated the test.

PISA test result is good predictor of future labour productivity, enhance GDP per capita.

Pisa tests: UK stagnates as Shanghai tops league table

Why single Shanghai out? What about the average for all of the PRC?

Interesting graph:


Average national IQ estimates according to IQ and Global Inequality. Dark blue represents an est. IQ of >105, dark red <65

Must be genetic.

thomas said:

Why single Shanghai out? What about the average for all of the PRC?

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OCED did the PISA, and as you know OCED is the organisation of a bunch of highly developed nations, their education system is fully developed and is unlikely to improve drastically in the future. Whilst China, although economically, second largest in the world, is still a developing nation, and much of the country education system is not fully developed, so to compared China as a whole to say UK as a whole would not be fair, a lot of the area in China such as Tibet, Gansu (the western parts of China), children can not afford school etc.

Shanghai's education model is like to the future for the China's education model, and Shanghai's economy is on par with that of OCED countries, so it is fair to compare only Shanghai to the rest of OECD instead of PRC as a whole.


PS. my home country Australia = fail