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To: fatty who wrote (16788)2/6/2004 1:05:27 AM
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If you actually read the problem you'd know that there were only two assumptions, one of which you agreed with.

The other wasn't mine, it was the assumption provided by the article Ywui pointed to as proof that top US science, math and engineering graduate programs had a high percentage of foreign students.

You agreed with the second, that one would find an equal distribution of those who are good at math and science across most populations.

Did I offer a solution that was wrong?

You offered no solution to the problem I gave you. And you made a common statistical error in this statement:

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.
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