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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]this chart is often copied and always wrong.

why is Chinese "easier"? bcs kids who speak Chinese take it. A lot of times kids who speak it at home. People who don't know Chinese don't take it.  it's "easy" and takes "less time" once you've put in 15 years or so speaking the language and going to Saturday school.

some tests are "harder" simply because more kids take them and thus they have the highest failure rate.  lots of schools have 50%+ of their grade take APUSH when its' really suited to the top 20%.

etc etc

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Yeah, the misinterpretation of this chart is sort of unbelievable.  You have to take into account the self selection of who takes which classes.

The clearest example is AP Calc AB vs BC...AB is objectively easier than BC (i.e., BC covers twice as much material as AB, i.e., it covers in one semester what AB covers in a year).  Yet, despite being harder, BC has a higher pass rate.  Why? Because the kids who self select into BC are either stronger math students or have already taken AB (or both).

Clearly, we need an AP data literacy class in this country.[/quote]

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