"John Knight" <johnknight at usa.com> wrote:
>http://christianparty.net/timssl10.htm>Since this was a multiple choice question with five possible choices, the
>probability of getting the correct answer just by guessing is 20%. In other
>words, for every five students who guessed, one of them would have gotten
>the correct answer by chance. The maximum score would have been achieved
>had all the students who didn't understand the problem guessed at the
>answer, so where 14.9% of American girls answered the problem correctly, 20%
>of them would have gotten the correct answer if all of them had just guessed
>at the question. It's not clear how they managed to score lower than if
>they had just guessed, but discovering why may go a long way towards
>understanding what has gone wrong with American "education".
And the fact that you have no idea why they scored lower than by guessing
shows just how inane your line of argument is.
>27.2% of American boys got the correct answer, 22.75% by guessing,
You don't know how many did it by guessing. You are just guessing that you
know.
>Is this adequate proof that our attempt to establish "gender equality" is a
>failure? Yes.
No. It is however adequate proof that you don't know what you are talking
about.
lojbab
