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North Korea was caught cheating twice, and is the only country to have been caught cheating at the IMOs so far, so I would take their ranking with a grain of salt. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_International_Mathemat...
How does one cheat at a test of this sort?
Astonishing performance (3rd place) by North Korea with pop. around 25m. Not sure what incentives were in place for the contestants.
Singapore at the 10th with fewer than 6 million people is also quite noteworthy. I wonder how much it has to do with importing talents or talented families from abroad, and how much from training starting at a young age. (I know that Thailand does have a series of math competition for kids starting at grade 3. This was started less than 20 years ago, which helps explain its much improved IMO performance over the last…
I looked a bit at the gender distribution for the gold and silver medalists, I would guess only 1 in 10-20 is a girl, most seemed to be from the eastern bloc countries.
I can't believe the audacity of Po-Shen Loh to send a team exclusively of boys to the IMO. When you have to select 6 team members how can you NOT select at least 1 female? This flies in the face of all the outreach work people have been doing to get more girls into STEM, and this victory will only discourage them. It appears the top 3 teams are all 100% boys. I'm delighted that this is currently the top comment here.…
And logically: until that happens, the school system isn't catering for half their population.
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How does one cheat at a test of this sort?
Team leaders know the question in advance. They are seperated from the team, but if they want to communicate they can. http://www.quora.com/How-did-North-Korea-cheat-in-the-IMO-in... Edit: have a read of this page. It shows that marking is not just a case of comparing the answer papers with a pre-prepared answer script. There is discussion and debate involved. http://www.imo-register.org.uk/2010-report.html > Problem…
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Are you implying that it would be good if the ones sent were based on a gender balance rather than being chosen on their math ability?
He might be suggesting that Ukraine and Bosnia-Herzegovina are to be lauded for having an educational system that doesn't end up leaving half of the population behind.
Because in America, women are more likely to graduate high school [0], enroll in college [1], graduate from college [2], and even make up 3/5's of graduate students [2].
[0] http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0779196.html
[1] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/03/06/womens-colle...
[2] http://www.prb.org/Publications/Articles/2011/gender-gap-in-...
I looked a bit at the gender distribution for the gold and silver medalists, I would guess only 1 in 10-20 is a girl, most seemed to be from the eastern bloc countries.
I can't believe the audacity of Po-Shen Loh to send a team exclusively of boys to the IMO. When you have to select 6 team members how can you NOT select at least 1 female? This flies in the face of all the outreach work people have been doing to get more girls into STEM, and this victory will only discourage them. It appears the top 3 teams are all 100% boys. I'm delighted that this is currently the top comment here.…
I looked a bit at the gender distribution for the gold and silver medalists, I would guess only 1 in 10-20 is a girl, most seemed to be from the eastern bloc countries.
I can't believe the audacity of Po-Shen Loh to send a team exclusively of boys to the IMO. When you have to select 6 team members how can you NOT select at least 1 female? This flies in the face of all the outreach work people have been doing to get more girls into STEM, and this victory will only discourage them. It appears the top 3 teams are all 100% boys. I'm delighted that this is currently the top comment here.…
I looked a bit at the gender distribution for the gold and silver medalists, I would guess only 1 in 10-20 is a girl, most seemed to be from the eastern bloc countries.
I can't believe the audacity of Po-Shen Loh to send a team exclusively of boys to the IMO. When you have to select 6 team members how can you NOT select at least 1 female? This flies in the face of all the outreach work people have been doing to get more girls into STEM, and this victory will only discourage them. It appears the top 3 teams are all 100% boys. I'm delighted that this is currently the top comment here.…
I looked a bit at the gender distribution for the gold and silver medalists, I would guess only 1 in 10-20 is a girl, most seemed to be from the eastern bloc countries.
I can't believe the audacity of Po-Shen Loh to send a team exclusively of boys to the IMO. When you have to select 6 team members how can you NOT select at least 1 female? This flies in the face of all the outreach work people have been doing to get more girls into STEM, and this victory will only discourage them. It appears the top 3 teams are all 100% boys. I'm delighted that this is currently the top comment here.…