"Parse Tree" <parsetree at hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "John Knight" <johnknight at usa.com> wrote in message
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> > "T. R. Ellis" <tr3ellis2nz at dropthis&3&2.hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:if3lju0nktg11nmfsh7d1qd2fmv23cvt9f at 4ax.com...> > > Parse Tree wrote:
> > > >T. R. Ellis wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> Hell, you don't even believe that science is a part of human
culture,
> > > >> your "HS" taught you that fingers don't have muscles (it's THEIR
> > > >> fault, not yours) and that the world has only three races of human
> > > >> beings.
> > > >
> > > >Science is a part of human culture,
> > >
> > > Perhaps you'll let the little racist princess "Jet" know this. She
> > > denied that science is a part of human culture. She tries to lie her
> > > way out of it now by making a nebulous claim about "context" (and, of
> > > course, never backing up her claim with any sort of evidence).
> > >
> > > But then, she also thinks that Usenet subject lines are, inherently,
> > > "facts".
> > >
> > > >that is why any test of Science ability is culturally biased.
> > >
> > > Tell it to the Chinese and Japanese.
> > >
> > > >The scientific method is rather eurocentric, as is
> > > >much of science itself.
> > >
> > > That's a rather eurocentric attitude, wouldn't you say? Other
> > > cultures (Chinese, Egyptian, Mayan, etc). surely used variations of
> > > scientific method, but perhaps not as refined as it is today.
> > >
> > > I must remind you. You failed to characterise scientific method as
> > > "patriarchal", didn't you? After all, it doesn't allow a lot of
> > > leeway for the feminist-ways-of-knowing.
> > >
> > >
> > > T. R. Ellis
> >
> > Well said, T. R.,
> >
> > If the "scientific method is rather eurocentric" as parsetree claims,
then
> > Koreans and Japanese and Taiwanese and Singaporeans must be "euros",
> because
> > they scored light years ahead of us in the "eurocentric" test called
> TIMSS.
> > Even at the 8th grade level, Japanese 8th graders scored 105 points
higher
> > than us, and Korean 8th graders scored 107 points higher, and 8th
graders
> in
> > Singapore scored 143 points higher.
> > http://christianparty.net/table20_1.htm>> No. This means no such thing. It simply means that asia adopted certain
> European viewpoints, faster than the rest of the world.
>>
It means, more specifically that Asian educational systems teach techniques
for taking eurocentric tests.
Joe
