Scores for Adults Are Dropping on Tests of Basic Skills

Re:Scores for Adults Are Dropping on Tests of Basic Skills by jph00 on Sunday December 15, 2024 @10:31PM (#42427777)

The article also pointed out that similar things are apparent in many other countries. Finland was highlighted as a place that avoided the trend -- a country that also had relatively low covid impact compared to the US.

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Re:Scores for Adults Are Dropping on Tests of Basic Skills by 015a on Monday December 16, 2024 @12:09AM (#42428156)

I mean, not really; John's Hopkins puts Finland's all time test positivity per capita at ~26%, to the United States' ~30%. A bit better, but not enough to explain differences like this. Its not vaccination either: Finland only leads the US by ~0.23%.

One area where Finland had low impact is in deaths: 0.16% per capita to the US's 0.33%. But, if the theory is that COVID infections themselves caused a globally observable effect like this, that stat should cause the problem to hit Finland more, not less, given they had more COVID survivors than the US.

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