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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]CNN:

“She graduated from a Connecticut High School with Honors, But She Cannot Read”

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/02/27/us/connecticut-aleysha-ortiz-illiterate-lawsuit-cec[/quote]

What about the Math or Physics competition winners? What about sports competitions? The bottom does not represent all[/quote]

Indeed. If you look at this year's IMO (Math Olympiad) v/s questions even from 10 years ago -- most of the top kids have no trouble solving the latter. In fact, some of the IMO questions in recent years have been so hard that even Terry Tao and a bunch of college professors had to "group solve" questions and it took them a couple of hours or more but every member of the US team solved them in the time allotted. So the top echelon is astonishingly proficient. [/quote]
So specific- not hard. Academics solve certain questions in certain Fields- they aren’t generalists. You don’t go to a guy in abstract algebra to learn about time series [/quote]

These were college math professors - check out Terry's blog. The questions are a lot harder now. Again, this is not research math etc. but still the point is that the top end in the US is astonishingly talented.[/quote]

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