![]() You are lucky, you must work hard and diligently. In Asian culture as well as in the children of the professional class, top 10 % of income, the very long tradition of meritocracy and hard work is ingrained from many generations back. Work, what is called by Malcolm Gladwell et al. By culture I am the focus an leaning and hard If you read the latest report on SAT scores and the increasing scores for Asians and the decreasing scores for African American and Latinos it has to do with culture. It underscores though, the marvelous achievements by people who have escaped their underpriviledged circumstances by education and demonstrates why, for better or worse, every student should take standardized tests (see local tax base) and domestic support (in light of job, health and marital circumstances at home) have, which contributes to a student’s confidence about what is expected of him and what he can achieve. These charts also ignore the effects that schooling resources While on a generalized basis, these charts may seem to be saying something, they say nothing about the character or ability of an individual on any level. For all the defects in the analysis exposedīy my fellow commentators, there is no more obvious proxy for Knowledge other than SAT scores and no more obvious proxy for Power than money (and Income is more readily known and understood by 17 year olds than Since the “Knowledge is Power” concept (Thank you, Sir Francis Bacon) is a foundation of our modern culture, these findings can’t be surprising at all. Colleges admit people, not means of deciles. I doubt these differences are meaningful in the admissions process. ![]() The depiction greatly exacerbates the perceptionĪdmissions offices take numerous factors into account in the admissions decision. If the two axes were presented proportionally, the slope would be much, much less. A severalfold increase in income produces an increase in SAT scores that is a small fraction of the increase in income ĭoubling income produces a 10% or less increase in SAT scores (compare the SAT scores of the $60,000 and the $120,000 deciles for instance, and consider whether they have any meaningful effect on admissions). The ninth decile ($200,000) is 1,000% of the end value for the first decile ($20,000). The horizontal axis applies to data where the end value for ![]() The visual presentation is problematic: the vertical axis applies to data where the highest mean (579) is roughly 125 – 130% of the lowest (425). Even at the top of these graphs, the mean scores are not very impressive to begin with. ![]()
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