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Re:Adapting to American culture as a Chinese student by Retric on Sunday November 27, 2016 @11:28AM (#13049931)
Diminishing returns may play a role in this.

To use extremes, if 1% of a population has a PHD then holding a PHD may be a proxy for other desired things. If 99% of a population has a PHD then it's less useful as a proxy.

PS: On it's own a few years of post secondary education don't actually mean much, so a large chunk of the value is as a proxy.

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Re:Adapting to American culture as a Chinese student by blueberryy on Sunday November 27, 2016 @04:11PM (#13051553)
Here's an article to support the claim that Asian-Americans are less represented in the executive /administrativelevels of a lot of companies/schools. http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21669595-asian-americ...
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