You could very well be right. My point was the authors' conclusion didn't match their underlying data. So the validity of their underlying data didn't come into play.
> I'd been given to understand Finland is generally regarded as one of the better education systems in the world.
Of course Finland (and most Northern European countries) has another advantage - they're teaching Finns.
Pretty much anything you do in those monocultures "works". So, their success with any program tells us nothing about how the same program will work in a cultures where things do fail, let alone diverse environments.
I'd been given to understand Finland is generally regarded as one of the better education systems in the world.
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