Difference in Math Scores Between Immigrant and Non-Immigrant Children by Country [OC]
September 2, 2024
Difference in Math Scores Between Immigrant and Non-Immigrant Children by Country [OC]
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The PISA test is an assessment conducted by OECD to measure educational attainment of 15 year olds. I thought it would be interesting to see the difference in immigrant and non-immigrant scores by country.
Interesting data. Canada makes sense. Still plenty of high skilled immigrants to cancel out the diploma mill “students”.
Why does Panama have an asterisk?
I get Europe but what is happening in Mexico?
This is an odd group of countries.
Ignore the slave states and small territories and you basically have it as;
Anglo countries and continental European countries.
The Anglosphere will always be the first port of call for educated migrants, it’ll also be the destination of any migrant looking to better their lives. So naturally education/money is going to follow.
Continental Europe treats migrants like a burden instead of an asset, they throw some government assistance and a house at them, then cut them out of their society.
I feel as though Anglo societies are less obsessed with their own culture and more into doing business. I also think the US mustn’t be accurate, the average American is dumb AF and there’s no way migrants would be that far behind
It is intentional to mix all types immigrants (refugees, working visas, illegal border crossers) together for OECD countries?
Data is interesting, but the presentation is confusing.
Arrow means progression. You can’t progress from being a native to an immigrant. I would recommend an open/close circle symbol instead.
You also order the graph by biggest gap. It makes it very hard to read.
To make the data cleaner, you should order them by native score, and connect the lines together/add emphasis. These are the status quo, so it makes to sort them by this metric. Doing this will make it very clear which one is native vs immigrants
well this is a metric I never even thought to measure
I can never remember if 1st gen means they were immigrants themselves or the first generation born as a citizen within the new country
Green arrow good, red arrow bad
You really need to fix that note on the USA. A second-generation child is a citizen.
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The PISA test is an assessment conducted by OECD to measure educational attainment of 15 year olds. I thought it would be interesting to see the difference in immigrant and non-immigrant scores by country.
Data: [2022 PISA](https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/pisa-2022-results-volume-i_53f23881-en.html) Tools: Python (Matplotlib) and Figma
Interesting data. Canada makes sense. Still plenty of high skilled immigrants to cancel out the diploma mill “students”.
Why does Panama have an asterisk?
I get Europe but what is happening in Mexico?
This is an odd group of countries.
Ignore the slave states and small territories and you basically have it as;
Anglo countries and continental European countries.
The Anglosphere will always be the first port of call for educated migrants, it’ll also be the destination of any migrant looking to better their lives. So naturally education/money is going to follow.
Continental Europe treats migrants like a burden instead of an asset, they throw some government assistance and a house at them, then cut them out of their society.
I feel as though Anglo societies are less obsessed with their own culture and more into doing business. I also think the US mustn’t be accurate, the average American is dumb AF and there’s no way migrants would be that far behind
It is intentional to mix all types immigrants (refugees, working visas, illegal border crossers) together for OECD countries?
Data is interesting, but the presentation is confusing.
Arrow means progression. You can’t progress from being a native to an immigrant. I would recommend an open/close circle symbol instead.
You also order the graph by biggest gap. It makes it very hard to read.
To make the data cleaner, you should order them by native score, and connect the lines together/add emphasis. These are the status quo, so it makes to sort them by this metric.
Doing this will make it very clear which one is native vs immigrants
well this is a metric I never even thought to measure
I can never remember if 1st gen means they were immigrants themselves or the first generation born as a citizen within the new country
Green arrow good, red arrow bad
You really need to fix that note on the USA. A second-generation child is a citizen.