[Cumpiler69]

>but numbers are surprisingly bad in the US, Sweden, and in England

Kids in rich countries have their brain fried from watching Cocomelon, Youtube Kids and Tiktok. They've been spawn-camped by ad-tech. Gotta get them when they're young.

[Aurornis]

The numbers have been going up as those things have been introduced, not down: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42318019

HN blames social media for everything, but this clearly isn’t it.

[runako]

https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=38

The US scores are relatively consistent going back over a half-century. TikTok and Cocomelon are not the culprits.

[eschulz]

I think many kids growing up today in developing countries also have their brains fried by the same ad-tech.

[Cumpiler69]

Kids in developing countries have pretty hard parents who beat productive values like education into them.