>Answer me this, if you were so much better educated why couldn't you answer my simple probability question?
Did you mean this post of yours?
>>Assuming top US science and math programs take the world's best, and that a normal distribution of students, who are good at math and science, exist across all populations, foreign born students are grossly under represented in US graduate programs judging from the numbers you posted.
Now if you could explain why I would say that it would go a long way to convincing me that Asians are better at math and science!
There are couple problems with your assumptions. First, the US does not have *all* the best programs in the world. Second, the admission requirement is different for American vs foreigners. Third, not everyone outside of US can afford to or want to study in the US.
As for whether Asians are better at math and science, I'd agree with your assumption that "a normal distribution of students, who are good at math and science, exist across all populations". That being said, since the China and India have a combined population of over 2.5 billion, their best 12% of the population amounts to 300 million, which is the same size as the US population.
So if we hold a math & science family feud between the US and Chindia, we would probably lose the game because our bottom 50% which all have SAT math lower than 500 will be competing with their top 6-12% which all have score bewteen 650 and 700. |
