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Posted by JayMan on Thu Jan 5 10:33:43 2012, in response to Re: OP-ED: What Americans keep ignoring about Finland's school success, posted by 3-9 on Thu Jan 5 04:27:57 2012. That's a good question. As an Asian, I think it's part natural, but I also think it's a lot cultural.Behavioral genetic tests done on Asians seem to indicate that the shared environment component (i.e., parents and the home environment) contributes nothing to their outcomes, as it shows with Western Whites. That is, their higher IQ is just as heritable as it is for other groups. Historically, Asians (and Eastern European) have been more family dependent than Western Europeans, and this may have selected for a different sort of behavioral traits, but that's different from saying that parental forces really matter much in their outcomes. Besides, I don't think it's good to generalize all Asians as really smart - you may have been focusing on the really smart Asians and not on the ones who weren't so smart People have problems thinking statistically. Probably because it's a useful shorthand to think that since Asians are smarter than average than Whites, that all Asians are smart (even though that's false). That said, considering that the mean E. Asian IQ is 106, and the SD about 14, only 1/3rd of all E. Asians have an IQ less than 100 (as opposed to half of all Whites). |
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