How does Canada keep doing well on the PISA

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[–]radicalcentristNational Centrism 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Canada uses a point system for immigration. The more educated you are, the faster your approval is.

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/immigrate-canada/express-entry/eligibility/federal-skilled-workers/six-selection-factors-federal-skilled-workers.html

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    [–]YORAMRWWhite nationalist, eugenicist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    That isn't how regression to the mean works. This is a popular misconception, which, by the way, is also used by leftists deliberately, to "debunk" race realism, eugenics or hereditarianism in general.

    If you take a group of high-IQ individuals from a race with a low average IQ and separate them from the overall population of their race, their descendants' IQs won't regress all the way back to the low average of their race, but rather regress to IQs somewhere inbetween their racial average and the high IQs of their particular ancestors in a couple of generations, and then more or less remain the same for their descendants.

    If regression to means worked in the way you think it does, evolution wouldn't even be possible in the first place, since any traits in an individual that get favored by natural selection (or eugenics) over the average traits of the race he belongs to would simply regress back to the racial average in his descendants anyways.