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> this is xenophobic stereotyping No it's not. It's just a statistic, what a pathetic rant. If we sampled 1000 people in your Bill Gates example, we can look d
by ramblerman 10y ago
> this is xenophobic stereotyping
No it's not. It's just a statistic, what a pathetic rant. If we sampled 1000 people in your Bill Gates example, we can look deeper into the 1000 that make 75 million on average and find Bill Gates - the anomaly - pretty quickly across the population.
Maybe some particular nationalities are pulling that number up it's worth further investigation. It's also not a huge stretch that the students who flew across the world to study in the US have more at stake, and might be more likely to cheat.
At the moment it's just a number and whatever your emotion to that number is it does tell us something.
- hackuser 10y ago> At the moment it's just a number It's not at all just a number. One of the world's leading publications has printed that headline and story; to the great majority of people, the number will be insignificant next to the headline. > It's also not a huge stretch that the students who flew across the world to study in the US have more at stake, and might be more likely to cheat. In fact, it's completely speculative to draw that conclusion, to conclude that they are cheating, and to conclude a causal relationship. I challenge you to show us some factual basis for it.
- ramblerman 10y ago> In fact, it's completely speculative to draw that conclusion I didn't conclude, I presented 2 possible explanations for the number. Tbh I think you're the one who has made up his mind already on this matter