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Re:SAT Scores Fall as More Students Take the Test by swebs on Thursday September 26, 2019 @04:03PM (#21084919)
>The same census also reports that about 74.1% of residents were of Chinese descent, 13.4% of Malay descent, 9.2% of Indian descent, and 3.3% of other (including Eurasian) descent

That's extremely different than the US.

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Re:SAT Scores Fall as More Students Take the Test by BeetleB on Thursday September 26, 2019 @04:26PM (#21085142)
Different in terms of the ethnicities involved, but not in terms of the distribution:

72.4% White, 16.3% Hispanic, 12.6% African American, 4.8% Asian

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Re:SAT Scores Fall as More Students Take the Test by esyir on Friday September 27, 2019 @03:00AM (#21089208)
Honestly, I'd say that a good chunk of that is culture. Singapore has an insane focus of education, with enormous amounts of spending on supplementary education and such.

In the US, the Asian "tiger mom" is seen as an odd peculiarity. That alone speaks volumes.

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Re:SAT Scores Fall as More Students Take the Test by swebs on Friday September 27, 2019 @07:03AM (#21090537)
>Different in terms of the ethnicities involved

That's the entire point though Africans and Hispanics score lower than Asians and Whites, as shown in his link.

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