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A comment on SAT score distributions in Michigan. Parent comment

Re:SAT score distributions in Michigan by throwaway8582 on Thursday October 06, 2022 @01:15PM (#33111062)
The Asians present in North America are not a random sample. A large portion of them came here specifically to work in STEM or other fields requiring high levels of intelligence and education. It's very probable that the ones here are, on average, significantly more intelligent than both the average American and the average Asian in Asia.
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Re:SAT score distributions in Michigan by faeriechangling on Thursday October 06, 2022 @07:54PM (#33115732)
For that matter, the Asians you see in studies of the average test scores in somewhere like “China” aren’t representative of the educational ability of the average rice paddy farmer, but of more urbanized populations.

I feel this must at least be a factor.

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