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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Hank Rogers <Hank@nospam.invalid> Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking Subject: Re: Ban coffee? Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 17:18:19 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 46 Message-ID: <vsf4bh$1dpob$1@dont-email.me> References: <vs7gtl$3vip7$2@dont-email.me> <vs7hs1$lgs$1@dont-email.me> <e88dcb1fffcc2268b57f1c7e04c82df9@www.novabbs.org> <vsc4mm$267dh$1@dont-email.me> <67e9a08a$0$5281$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <2jjGP.1547893$zz8b.619911@fx09.iad> <67ea03a3$2$3833$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <vsd2l6$38jd0$2@dont-email.me> <MPG.42547f48fcf01e43294@news.individual.net> <vse5if$cv83$1@dont-email.me> <cZxGP.1367103$FVcd.446101@fx10.iad> <5991a7edb6e661b136f46397415d17a5@www.novabbs.org> <vsem8f$1ersd$1@paganini.bofh.team> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:18:28 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="2b9b5acf85cd095e025756540690b3a9"; logging-data="1500939"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19NBSRa9elw7vose0CbwtzkxfTgVwtbAJE=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.20 Cancel-Lock: sha1:ED4NNZc686MRWLjdBvE3LEsm/Yc= In-Reply-To: <vsem8f$1ersd$1@paganini.bofh.team> Bytes: 3493 Andy Trujillo wrote: > dsi1 wrote: >> On Mon, 31 Mar 2025 14:50:48 +0000, Dave Smith wrote: >>> >>> >>> Are you suggesting that China would not be completely open and honest? >>> They have the best numbers. Other countries wish they had those >>> numbers. But seriously..... it can be an issue. When our provinces >>> first started testing of all school students to monitor the quality of >>> results of school boards the Catholic boards tended to show better >>> performance and of course they were quick to claim it was because they >>> education system was superior. It had a lot more to do with their lack >>> of special education facilities. They sent their special needs students >>> to the public school special ed classes. Who would have expected that >>> they all those special needs kids would lower the average. >>> >>> > >>> > I'm willing to believe they're smarter, but not on the basis >>> > of 104 vs. 97. >>> >>> It seems to depend on the site. The numbers are different. China tends >>> to be at or near the top and the US tends to be well down the list. >>> While there are slight differences in scores reported, the rankings are >>> pretty consistent. >>> >>> I wonder about the cultural effects on the IQ testing. IQ tests are >>> notoriously affected by language and culture. >> >> Da Hawaiians have close ties with the Chinese so we know that the >> Chinese are indeed smarter than you or I. What isn't smart is to ever >> underestimate the Chinese. My grandkids are part Chinese - that's a good >> thing. >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_immigration_to_Hawaii > > > > > How do the Chinese name their children? > > They drop silverware in the sink and listen to the sound it makes. Nah, they don't have a sink, nor any siverware. They skip a flat rock across a pond and listen for the sound. Ching chang chong. What they hear will be the name.