Study: Israel Far Below Other Developed Countries in Reading, Math, Problem-Solving Skills
Non-Haredi Israeli Jews just reach the OECD average — where is their much-vaunted superiority? — and Haredi Jews rate far below average.
ISRAELI GROWNUPS are less skilled than most citizens of the industrialized countries in math, reading and problem-solving in a digital environment, the Central Bureau of Statistics announced on Tuesday. The findings were collected by the Israeli Survey of Adult Skills, which is part of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies for 2014-2015.
In reading literacy, the average score in Israel is 255 compared with 268, the OECD average, placing Israel in 28th place out of 34 countries in this category.
In math literacy, the Israeli average is 251, compared with 263, placing it in the 29th spot out of 34 countries.
In solving problems in an online environment, the Israeli average is 274, compared with 279, placing it in 24th place out of 29 countries surveyed.
However, in all three areas, Israeli Jews scored far better than their Arab neighbors, with an average gap of 40 to 50 points in every area. Israeli Jews consistently scored at the OECD average, while Israeli Arabs fell far below.
The surveys were conducted in Hebrew, Arabic and Russian.
The survey found that only 9% of Jews lacked basic digital skills: using a computer mouse, scrolling down a website, compared with 34% of the Arabs surveyed.
The average score of younger participants was higher than the score of older participants in all three areas. The older the participant, the lower the score. However, Jewish scores started dropping significantly at age 40, while Arab scores did at 30.
Men lead women in Israel in math literacy, but the two sexes are equal in reading literacy and in problem solving.
The survey found a correlation between participants’ scores and their income level. Participants with total inexperience in using computers reported annual incomes as low as $20,890.
Haredi Jews performed particularly badly compared with non-Haredi Jews in problem solving: 19% to 37% correspondingly.
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Source: Jewish Press
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“Israeli grownups are less skilled than most citizens of the industrialized countries in math, reading and problem-solving in a digital environment, the Central Bureau of Statistics announced on Tuesday.” The Jews were tested for problem-solving skills. They were not tested for problem-creating skills, where they would undoubtedly outperform all other ethnic, racial, and national groups.
Unfortunately, this piece of news can’t be true. It is not without intelligence that the Jews have the upper hand.
Actually the results is reasonable since only a minority of the israeli jews is Ashkenazi Jews, the other types of jews is certainly the ones driving down the results.
I see not only Ashkenazis holding the upper hand everywhere. So I am unsure that the sefardis are clearly less intelligent than them.
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Question: What is six million minus two million?
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Well done Moishe, you have passed with an A+! Now go and read the nice book about big brother stamping on goys’ faces until they say two plus two equals five.
Israel Far Below Other Developed Countries in (…). Israel is just a developed country because of the White technology that themselves couldn’t build like computers, the transistor, the electricity, the television, the camera, the vaccine, et cetera. If Jews have never stolen Aryan technology Israel would be a developing country just like Brazil and Uganda.