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Re: What happened to our intelligence?

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We're second in the world for attaining tertiary education, behind Canada, above all of Europe. If there really is a bias, it certainly doesn't manifest itself in the relevent statistics.

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/ed...nment-tertiary
Source? I mean other than nationmaster. Nationmaster is known to be less reliable thank wikipedia. And these numbers are absurd. 10% in Italia? Who is supposed to believe that?
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Source? I mean other than nationmaster. Nationmaster is known to be less reliable thank wikipedia. And these numbers are absurd. 10% in Italia? Who is supposed to believe that?
the source is at the bottom of nationmaster, its from the OECD, and personally I believe them to be a credible source.

Now If you care to pay the 60 odd dollars you can get the full report or read excerpts from it for free.

http://www.oecd.org/document/34/0,23..._1_1_1,00.html

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