Sentences with phrase «insignificant differences between countries»

Comparing results internationally, Dr Thomson said that Australia performed equal 10th in science, equal 12th in reading and equal 20th in mathematics, after accounting for insignificant differences between countries and economies.

Not exact matches

The committee found many instances in which a country's ranking goes up in a given release year, but its mean score goes down — meaning that countries are ranked higher but doing worse — or where the differences between ranked jurisdictions» scores are so statistically insignificant that the act of ranking them adds a meaning that isn't there.