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Asians have higher incomes, higher educational achievement and longer expected lives than whites in the U.S. The problem is not "compounding returns", it is ge
by quantumofmalice 9y ago
Asians have higher incomes, higher educational achievement and longer expected lives than whites in the U.S.
The problem is not "compounding returns", it is genetics and, to a lesser extent, culture.
Until this fact, which most educated people know but are terrified to say aloud, is admitted and reckoned with, no progress will be made. This will hurt non-asian minorities the most.
- zaccus 9y agoAsians are overrepresented among high achievers. That does not mean that the reason for this is because they are Asian. Anyone who has taken Stats 101 can tell you that. Replace 'genetics' with 'astrological sign' and you see how absurd this argument is.
- quantumofmalice 9y agoThe success of asians disproves a general bias towards whites in the US or any sort of "compounding interest" associated with it. The consensus amongst neurobiologists is that adult IQ is somewhere between 70-80% based on genetic factors. I invite you to read "The Neuroscience of Intelligence" by Richard Haier, and the many studies cited therein. Comparing this scientific work with astrology is clownish, on par with young earth creationism.