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Posted by JayMan on Thu Jan 5 13:43:32 2012, in response to Re: OP-ED: What Americans keep ignoring about Finland's school success, posted by PATHman on Thu Jan 5 12:18:35 2012. I didn't say E. Asians don't do well in verbal ability. Only that they are weaker in verbal ability than they are in visuospatiual reasoning. Indeed the mean IQ of E. Asians of "~105" comes from averaging their visuospatial score (109) with their verbal score (101)! East Asians are comparable to Whites in their verbal ability.But in America, historically there has been a phenomenon of Asians performing more poorly on the verbal sections of the SAT relative to Whites:  ...a gap that seems to narrow as you go up the income scale. But since success may be more linked to verbal IQ than to overall IQ, that might explain this phenomenon. Of course, Asians have been improving their SAT scores as of late, probably because of coaching. Such practice won't necessarily improve Asian outcomes in America, since such practice only has the effect of lowering the g-loading of the SAT even further. |
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