But the high ranking obscured a crisis. According to Sung Yao-ting, a professor with the Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling at National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU), the Taiwanese scores ranged from pole to pole and had the highest standard deviation of all the nations in the top ten.
不過，在世界第一的冠冕下，潛藏著一項危機，台灣師範大學教育心理輔導系教授宋曜廷指出，在排名前 10 的國家中，台灣學生整體成績的標準差最大，幾乎橫跨光譜的兩極。