> So controlling for their environment, Asians stand out less than they do just by looking at raw numbers. Compared to where they live, they stop outperforming

> So controlling for their environment, Asians stand out less than they do just by looking at raw numbers. Compared to where they live, they stop outperforming whites, they just tend not to live in poor areas where whites also populate. That's begging the question of why they tend to live where they do: whether someone lives in a high-income/high-cost/economically-productive area is in large part driven by whether they can git into that economy. By your logic, I could take Americans in high-income areas and those in low-income areas and prove that the former don't stand out in terms of income (which is obviously silly).