The Future of China?, Where India left in dust? Options

[richasiankid]

Some rhapsodise just how great India will thrive on multi-religious democracy (unlike Israel or mid east). Others fancy India becoming like HK or S'pore securing itself via English facility against evil Sinic hegemony.

But in the end it's a lesson where everything's sweet & swell India where it doesn't measure up, where it still can't even secure the basics and where human capital matters:

http://www.zshare.net/download/97642747c4df52c8/ (light end of tunnel; patience patience!)

PISA 2009 report for (against?) India?

Cities of India are still at the very very bottom, while cities like Shanghai are wowwing off the charts.

Yet another data point we're different.....

[DOUBLEMINT]

Anybodykiller,you are the one that takes these IQ tests the most seriously.lol.Just chill okay?IQ tests probably dont really reflect IQ,but it definitely reflects something can we just agree on that?

[richasiankid]

Anybodykiller,you are the one that takes these IQ tests the most seriously.lol.Just chill okay?IQ tests probably dont really reflect IQ,but it definitely reflects something can we just agree on that?

Agree totally - just re-read excited posts on this thread - his material and tone have now become almost a crusade against....even PISA? Think about it: if PISA (or TIMSS for that matter) scores are all so utterly meaningless, why not treat them as UFOs or astrology in their power to predict the future? No one gets worked up with astrology because people know in their heart of hearts they don't signal much; they don't mean anything.

But I say at the very least all of us agree we're different. Some are still more different than others though....

And I also think a 2+ standard deviation between populations (i.e. not individuals) between Shanghai and the two Indian cities should be a topic worthy of discussion when both giga-countries, with India usually supposedly to be edging out China given it has (tada!) the right conditions like (guess!) democracy. Get it? Love the weak, hate the strong. Camel in needle-eye and ecumenical Christian value etc. Indians, of course know better themselves and acknowledge such fact. Yet somehow we we should behave like docile children to blind ourselves the truth of diversity.

I ask one poster this: why should we expect Bushmen or Australian aborigines to rule the 21st century anyway?

(Pity?)