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by pjlegato 3554 days ago
And the worst part: This sort of draconian training regimen doesn't even work. If it did, China would have far more Nobel Prizes than it does.
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It works [1]. The problem is that Nobel Prize has little to do with kindergarten and average people.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/dec/03/pisa-r...

Test scores are a strange definition of "it works" in the given context.
Why are you assuming that the goal of the regimen is to produce Nobel Prizes?