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Who is Smarter? 2 American College Students vs 2 Chinese College Students
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This week’s video features a friendly showdown between two American college students and two Chinese college students to find out who comes out on top on who is smarter. We put their knowledge to the test in a competitive quiz-let’s see who takes the win!
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Keep making such videos. These are enjoyable
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If the birthday was Feb 4 then it was a tie except for leap years. If it's after the verdict was correct. If it's before Team China won the tiebreaker.
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@CantoMando 你选Dingdua大学还是Beida大学呢😁
pretty sure the 5th grader from china can solve all these questions correct
Tbh if they’re getting to college students then no(personally, I am from China) and if I’m calculating right, he’s probably in six grade right now and in six grade we don’t learn this stuff so……🫡
And they bought two students from北大do you know how hard that is? Your高考score Has to be 690-750
u mean bought ?😅
@Chickennugget_yum32 but he could learn if he's smart enough
@Chickennugget_yum32 67?
Ok at least pull 2 students from an Ivy League 😭
Facts
This was filmed in China, so the 2 American students were probably the only ones who were willing to be recorded. It's probably difficult to find an American international student (from an Ivy League school) on a Chinese school campus that's also willing to be on camera for a video. He probably interviewed a bunch of international students until those 2 American students finally agreed.
Then ask them to discribe what is a women is...😂😂😂😂
@jasonsandoval3823 what…?💀
@jasonsandoval3823what d that have t d with ths ?
do both from the highest ranking institutions like mit/caltech vs tsinghua/peking
they should do in this way to ensure fairness....
@harry147ish Crying about fairness when the Chinese students aren't even answering in their native language, lol.
@renee_tsaiAmericans hate being inferior
@renee_tsaienglish is easy to learn, it doesnt make that much difference
The Chinese students will still win.
You guys should of brought Xian Xian back and name the segment "Who is Smarter? 2 American College Students vs 2 Chinese College Students vs a 5th grader".
My money is on Xian Xian :D
FR like pls I want to watch itt:)))
same :D
Xian Xian would have said "2" for question 2 AND proven the answer as CORRECT!
High key agree
Smart money would bet on Xian Xian.
There are 206 bones in the human body, 207 if im watching gossip girl. (Deadpool)
Robotics students going against Psychology students 💀
0:34 this is EXACTLY my homework today lol
awesome
As if we asked
@Abby-lk6ef I asked
@arandomguy-vv5xlwhere
5:00 that why he choose robotics.
Picking Chinese students that are geniuses and then picking two random college students from America without any prestige with mid majors just doesn’t seem fair
The geniuses from top American universities are Chinese too
I think they picked them because they knew Chinese and weren’t ethnically Chinese
@Axel-t1q9 So.. what’s your point?
America’s built on diversity and immigration, and that same Chinese-American genius was taught by the same school system as everyone else.
It’s like saying that since Stephon Marbury, who played in the CBA for many years and is now the head coach for one of the teams, is American, he can’t be considered a player in the CBA. Sounds dumb, right?
@colewilliamson5742 it's obviously a joke
@nobody_2.0
Honestly, with the amount of hate America gets? I don’t think so.
3:47 i thought about atmosphere too🥀
the hemisphere question is the only one I don't agree with. Formally you can section into northern, southern, western and eastern hemispheres but mathematically there are actually infinite ways you can divide a sphere into two equal volumes by sectioning the centre, and you only ever get two hemispheres for any given section.
Was going to say the same... the answer was 2. A hemisphere is definitionally half a sphere.
Exactly. Any sphere could be technically divided into only 2 hemispheres, that's based on the mathematical definition. He should've mention that according to what references, like the equator or the meridians, They're dividing the earth
Peking University's admission rate for Chinese high school students is 1.28 per 10,000 students.
This is such a good vid. Keep up the great work!🔥
this was basically a test on general knoledge... what does this have to do with what school u go to?
11:51 the guy really looks like Emma Watson
13:30 I had zero expectations from americans
5:57 she didn’t put three, she was adding it, 1+1 😂
Chinese kids be playing school ranked
We need American kid doing gaokao
they can’t do that
its like telling a goldfish to 1v1 lebron james
If they study hard like Chinese students, I do think they can do that.
THE KID IS BACK
They were clearly looking each others answer
Me watching this while doing my funkin chinese homework 😭😭😭
我也
when you upload anything to the internet, the netizens are always the smartest 😂
More videos like this please!
19:32 intertwined😭
20:04 if u seeeeee they actually wrote 72 toooo
even if im drunk i can answerthese
Wow rare mythical not sponsored by squarespace pull
nobody is talking about how the white guy speaks fluent chinese?
dawg the video was posted under an hour ago
nobody talk about why the Chinese girl is so jacked😮
@rickbss281 lol at the people afraid to give dudes compliments. Almost as if they're closet gays. 😂
Why do people make such a big deal out of this?
@beachboy12345literally hardest language to learn
Amazing competition
10:10 This question sounds pretty big, but if you think about it for a few seconds it's pretty easy. 1+100 is 101, 2+99 is also 101. If you do it another 48 times, you've gone through all the numbers from 1-100, and you're left with 50 times 101.
yeah, pretty sure most student learn this in secondary (middle) school. it's call arithmatic series.
everyone knows sum of n natural numbers
n(n+1)/2
This is fucking easy it’s not that complicated 😭
Oh, I just did 60x24=1.440x60=86.400
Love these videos!
Wait this is sus the Chinese students are from Peking while the American ones are from Arizona University... Bro Peking is much higher rated than Arizona, like bro
@yongdeng1813 yeah, it's not like american universities rank higher than top chinese universities in most rankings... right?
@yongdeng1813 its not always abt compeititons...
@yongdeng1813 what are the chances this is a chinese commenter
@yongdeng1813 "consists of all asians" LMAO is it time to turn on Mao's propaganda yet Wumao?
@yongdeng1813 Really? How many innovations and companies have the top Chinese students produced on the past 40 years?
So fun!
I felt so smart watching this video
这只是你的感觉而已
@kiisana100你好😂
How are you smart, the way you took, how...
I would ask how many questions i can ask
I want you guys to think about this - the Chinese students have to accommodate to the American students when it comes to language. So there is no comparison unless you do one where they both have to listen and speak in Chinese, and that they qualify to take these tests.
The American guy speaks Chinese though
I was thinking this at first, but at least one of the Americans speaks fluent Chinese. Plus the Chinese students are from a more prestigious university so it often evens out that way.
@meme101RE correct but the question are not ask in chinese nor answer in chinese. that's what he is saying.
they're not accommodating in the slightest lol they just chose to communicate in english when giving their answers lol
he also picked chinese students from a top university and american students from a random one
nice matching system bro
Bro, ASU VS Peking University is insanely unfair 😂
They shoulda done MIT atleast
I knew the answer before clicking
Technically China's largest province is QInghai. Xinjiang is an autonomous region, which is a different type of subdivision from a province.
Exactly.
8:32 shows how a person can be biased when given money
I would say the chinese student from Peking is absolutely smart. The way he answers math questions was almost immediately
They don’t even know how many bones are there in a human body. I still know this from grade 4.
@Unknownjr_shortsthat’s not about being smart. That’s memorization
I love the good friendly atmosphere. ❤
Ive been watching you since the uncle Roger impressing video. Keep up the good work. I would love to see the 1 week food challenges again.
But the ropes burn inconsistently.
The Chinese muscle guy is so smart. Brawn, brain and beauty all in 1 dude.
The white guy speaking fluent Chinese is surprising. White guys speaking Chinese is so cool.
Hi
DAMN RIGHT
The girls were also smart?
@1ndiYates I don't care, sorry. My post specifically only mentioned dudes.
@woodykusaki9970 yeah..exactly. Idiot 🤦
Thanks for taking the time to make this video.
the answer is gonna be obvious lol
The easy questions are the definition of simple
a man from the USA i think he has a similar face with emma Watson..
bro starting a knowlwdge war 😂😂
The fact that those two American students speak Chinese and probably stayed in China for years, means that they are smart, open minded and have a global view on things. They are much smarter than average college students, not because of which university they come from.
I wouldnt call liberal arts degrees that smart science degrees are usually way harder and intelligent
@gallardoo9 I mean, I don’t speak perfect English, but I do think science degrees are far more demanding and require more intelligence than liberal arts. Even though it’s not objectively tied to IQ, people with higher IQ tend to stand out in both types of majors.
@gallardoo9 That's not true at all.
I believe that the 5th grader would be smarter then them if he was in college 😂
20:57 tecnicaly both are draw july 23 is 5 montes ahead of feburary and Agust 9 is 5 months too, so it world depend on the day of your birthday
August is 6 months, but yeah they were very close to each other again
5:07 AINT no way
The reason because this video seemed for fair is because in china we are taught more of a straightforward type of questions, such as quadratic formula and other stuff like that, but in the video the questions are more problem solving than actual 3x3 times shit so yea hoped this helped
are you sure about that? have you seen the kind of question they ask these day? xD
That was fun😂❤
好默契
✅
Speed should be the deciding factor if they were tie in scoring.
Isn’t Arizona state like the fifth tier state school in the US? 😂
But the male student showed excellent learning ability! His Chinese was so good!!
The game went from who is smarter to who knows Cantomando better 😂
Actually the Team USA isn't wrong on the bone. Since the youtuber doesn't clearly say if it is adult bone or baby. Even though adults usually have around 206 bones, babies have 270 which is their answer. So they should get a half credit or sth on that
They're cheating tho , they know the last question's answrr
Good job
6:00 The Chinese girl wrote I + I. She did not write III. She may not be familiar with tally marks.
7:15 Confirmed. She wrote IIIII, instead of IIII with a horizontal line through it
In China they use 正 as the tally system :) It also takes 5 marks but becomes that shape
Personally I think american tallies are nice for working well as numbers under 5, since you can start jotting them thinking it won't be that high and then just do a slash to get into tally form (if that makes sense) but for 正 you have to think ahead, 正 is more aesthetically pleasing though
@steampocalypse2429 I used to work with a guy from Egypt who had never seen tally marks. On large volumes of work, he just put down a I for each, and then he had to count them from his sheet at the end of the day. I showed him how easy tally marks are. You just go five, ten, fifteen, etc. And I believe that humans are hard wired to count by fives because of the number of fingers on our hands.
We don’t do that in China.
@privacyunknown5471 I know it's not universal; I could tell the Chinese girl was not familiar with it. But it's such an easy way to keep track. The Egyptian guy used to spend fifteen minutes counting his tick marks at the end of his shift. I just went, 5, 10, 15, 20, done.
@privacyunknown5471maybe not now but I’ve seen it used in China since 1986 when I first visited China with my parents. But I hardly see it used these days probably because we have digital tallying.
these guys make me feel smart
For the door question can’t u just ask the guard to open the door to show us?
The guard either tells the truth or lies, they have no reason to follow commands or requests
Very good! Another answer to the riddle is that you can peek through the doors and just check manually which one has rainbows and sunshine, and which one has fire and brimstone
Tienes un 50% de suerte en tener a un guardia que no te mienta y te diga "No, no te puedo abrir la puerta" por justamente mentir
11:50 the struggle is crazy
4:33 WHERE DID THEY GET 1300 BONES
😂😂
I'm literally 12 years old in i beat these people with a few questions
Xinjiang is not a province. It’s an autonomous region
I’m a math teacher. The Earth is a ball that can only be divided into two hemispheres at any one time. That said, it can be divided into infinitely many hemispheres because any point and its antipode form the poles, with a great circle defined along the midpoint between the poles. 4 is a GEOGRAPHIC answer based on social conventions.
It is a geographic convention to divide based on the equator for seasons, and time line 0 for day/time. So four is the correct answer. This wasn't a geometry question.
Guess what, it wasnt a math question, but a geography question...
@TiesBesselJonkerI understand that.
What’s WRONG is that our language doesn’t adequately differentiate the two-we need a clear, different word that strictly means one of Earth’s economic, sociopolitical and navigational hemispheres. As it stands, “hemisphere” is both a geographical AND a geometric idea. Practically, no one discusses all four of Earth’s geographic hemispheres at the same time-not economists, navigators, politicians or military planners. Mathematically, the location (and its antipode (polar opposite) position) of resources such as food, energy or military power create novel hemispheres that do, actually impact human beings. That’s economics, politics AND geography! As much as I appreciate the idea of disentangling irrelevancies, this math pretty much won’t go away (even if you pretend the Earth is flat) because math is kinda baked into reality. It doesn’t care about politics, religion, economic theories, military objectives, silly notions or skin color. Math just describes things unreasonably well. (It’s even more impartial than blind justice.) And it tends to make fools of any of us who don’t understand (or at least respect) it.
By the way, my BA was in psychology and my military training was in intel so the social sciences (AKA geographic) angle is very comfortable to this old STEM teacher!
@TiesBesselJonkerit's it wasn't
@UrsaPaedagogusguess what, perhaps i was wrong and the original question was ambiguous.
I don't have an opion or interesting thing to add about the need for futher clarity on hemispheres.
I understand your assessment in principle. The world is ridden with such vague operationalisations.
Getting more questions right compared to the college students makes me feel like a genius😭😭😭
3:50 hemisphere means half sphere. So 2 is correct, obviously.
No
@vimlakosta6590 No what ?
4 is the right ans, western, Eastern, North and South hemisphere
@vimlakosta6590 They're not hemispheres, by definition. If you cut a sphere in four, you get 4 quarter spheres.
Go google it if u dont believe me
Arizona ❤
As a chinese chinese student from ASU, I would say ASU vs Peking University is extremely unfair
Why?
I would have said to the guard: Can you open the door?
These two Americans are international students in China? They are smarter than the average American student. You should invite local American students to try.
They go to a completely average-joe school, dumbass. LMAO. These are pretty much typical American College students.
They're from state school in America, up against Chinese students from the top uni in china, put an MIT Engineering student that's the equivalent.
@YoungMan-uu4roSo they took 2 American students from US to China? I find that hard to believe. And one of them understands Chinese.
@XDigimonthey're literally from state schools in America, this wasn't fair they took China's top uni and put them against average Americans
@deceased6497depends on their major, these are liberal arts students, they out their time in learning Chinese no math of physics.
It's interesting there are two very different solutions for the last question! Left team forced the "which door" question through both an inverting and non-inverting gate so they know the answer (door is the codified input) is always inverted (lie). The right team embeds in an inquiry on the operation of the guard (whether it's inverting/lying or not) so the input changes whether or not it's inverting. If there were more than 2 doors / guards the left team's method wouldn't work. If there were more than 2 doors the right team's method should still work, but only if there are still only 2 types of doors.
There's no way these are college students. I got all the easy questions right... but they didn't
us college guy looks like jesse enkamp
Eh in my opinion the answer to the hemisphere question is wrong. You only divide it into two. But you can divide it north-south or east-west. Otherwise they are overlapping.
"I agree the Earth divided into 2 hemisphere the northern and southern the most common way to divide the earth,it also also have Eastern and Western the division based in prime meridian.Now this may confused because we can consider both to have two or for hemispheres doesn't matter at all but the common they usually base in many discussion in climate, seasons and geographical distribution,it's perfectly valid and common to say that the Earth has two hemispheres."btw the question isn't specific.
not really, he never said you have to divide them all at once, just how many "way" you could. you are right about it being overlapping.
Yes. Hemi also literally means two.
great minds think alike
No one shall say first in this comment section
bro's muscles are crazy
People complaining that they're just two random Americans, even a Chinese kid could beat them because those questions are for kids
Cmon bro even 6 grader know how many bone are there in a human body
They prob forgot since it’s been so long
Im 40 and i dont know yet
Pick someone equal, someone who is top student from their school. To ensure more fairness
18:20 i dont think that team china answer could be correct because the Lie teller will always tell lie, so you can't froce him to not tell lie, otherwise it will makes self-referential paradoxes for its own.
No I think you've misunderstood. They actually meant liar should go to hell (the other go to the opposite)then where you go. The truth teller would go heaven and the liar would lie and point out heaven.
@TravisXu2007thx for your comment, i understand it now, i just overthinking the process 2 days ago, but now i clearly see whats the team china mean, thank you
@chuokian912sorry could you explain because if you ask which door will lead to hell if you’re lying the truthful one will point to the door to hell but the lying one can’t answer truthfully so he’ll point to heaven
"If lying MAKES you go to hell, which door would you go to?".
The truth-teller knows they don't lie, so they'd point to heaven's door.
The liar knows they lie and are meant to go to hell's door because they lie...however, because they lie, they won't point to hell's door, they'd actually point to heaven's door, so that you think they are not a liar.
Based on that question, they'd both point to heaven's door.
So, the Chinese students were spot on.
Since The truth guard always tells the truth, then he can never go to hell due to lying because he just can tell a lie and so he'll always go to heaven. But the lie guard just can't tell the truth and he knows lying would take him to hell but he'd lie about that and say that he would go to heaven.
for the rope and lighter ques
burn one rope from both the ends - that equals half the time = 30 mins
burn the second rope from both the ends and also exactly from the middle ( half of 30 mins)= 15 mins
Bro how about trying indian students (IIT or from top colleges of course) vs Chinese top students. That's gonna be a gojo vs sakuna level competition 😂
😂
Ofc it's "sakuna"
That fact that their guesses at the last questions were so striking..... Americans and Chinese 👍🙌
where is my xian xian?
Home
5:44 gold
Personally, there is not a fair test because you compare students who come from tsuang which is the most highest quality school in China but for American, you take a normal school as an example. For the next turn, i suggest you should take both side from the highest quality school to ensure that the test is fair (sorry if my English still has some mistakes)
100% agree
How would did be fair if one side speaks fluent English and from top tier college while other has a problem with English “as seen in video”, if you want to make it 100 percent fair, the question should be in asked on Chinese and English and students from around same quality college
@SakuraBlossom9107 I know you're also chinese but you're being way too harsh on them with that "problem with english" comment, they're clearly understanding and communicating just fine 😭
Singapore should be next
As a European living going to school in Norway, these lower class questions are things I know right out of my head that most SHOULD know
Especially the 1st one
the Chinese students look like they got through the gaokao exam
I mean, for the last question, you can ask a yes or no question, and arguably, it's much simpler than the answers they gave. Just ask it, "Is the truth teller standing in front of the door to heaven?". A yes implies the guard you asked is guarding the heaven door (regardless of if it's a truth teller or liar), and a no implies the other guard is guarding the heaven door (regardless of if it's a truth teller or a liar)
Took me a while to get what you meant,but yes your right
the guard doesnt speak he only points to a door
@sdfsfsdf641 tell me where in the video it states that. Also, assuming you're correct, then ill change my question.
"Is the truth teller standing in front of the door to heaven, if yes, point to the other door, if no, then point to your door"
Bro how do you know which one is truth teller?
Wrong
They call Asian nerd, but the questions are just some foundation tasks