If you ever do business in China, you’ll find that typically the Chinese try to cheat you at every turn. The Japanese, however, tend to be very ethical.
Jack* says:
Luke, I don’t know if you have ever read a blog that I found because it was linked by Sailer. It is Educationrealist.wordpress.com.
The author who I think is a man but I am not sure, takes great care to preserve his anonymity. In addition to teaching at a public high school, he also tutors children including Asian children.
After reading his blog, and also some by Steve Sailer, I think it is pretty clear that the overall higher number of Asians with AP class credit and high SAT and ACT scores is somewhat deceptive. I don’t doubt that in general East Asians (Japanese, Koreans and some Chinese) have higher average IQ scores than do whites, and I don’t doubt some Indians also have high IQ scores (but this may just be because there are so many of them that the ones on the right side of the Bell Curve are more numerous) but it is also clear there is massive cheating on standardized tests. Not only has the SAT had to throw out the Korean scores, but apparently you can find on the dark net the actual tests that will be given with answers before the date they are given. Asians do not have the moral reluctance to cheat that WASP’s do, and so at least a significant portion of the higher scores are due to cheating and also intensive paid for coaching for the tests.
This is clear that professors at elite institutions that accept these foreigners with stellar academic credentials and test scores find out that some of them turn out to be really poor students who don’t understand what is going on and can’t solve the problems they are presented with. Sometimes these deficiencies become apparent during the application process, particularly if the candidate is interviewed personally, but what with writers for hire composing their, personal essays, and being drilled on for passing AP tests and actual cheating on the SAT’s, it is sometimes hard to determine the true abilities of the applicant.
The problem is that these high marks also mean that those Asians who legitimately score higher can get lumped with these of lower intellect when subjected to a quota for admission to elite universities.
