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by carmen_sandiego 1905 days ago
You're conveniently circling an arbitrary part of the chart and saying 'look over here!' but it's disingenuous.

For example, Chinese tertiary attainment is half that of the US:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tertiary_...

Again, soap and hygiene. Since when do we compare education levels only on basic literacy and numeracy?
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Daho0n 1905 days ago
Since Americans started leaving schools without knowledge of basic English skills. We were talking about English skills, not how top universities fare in tests.
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carmen_sandiego 1905 days ago
> We were talking about English skills

No, 'educated' was the term used. I'm not sure why you would think we're only talking about basic 'English' skills.

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