Even if we accept that the results of Shanghai are slightly skewed, the results themselves are nonetheless there. Shanghai is a huge region of twenty million.
Also, China not just came on top. But came on top by an enormous margin. The difference in scores between Shanghai and France are as large as the difference between France and Papoea New Guinea.
French kids are less well educated than that centre of public intellectual endeavor and of teenage cultural refinement, the United States.
Ah well. We beat Britain and Sweden.
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