Last edited by PickleballAce; 2016-07-15 at 08:42 PM.
You do know that they could have a white parent right?, and might have been born and raised in America. I have cousins that are half-Filipino, and half-white, but you wouldn't know they had white in them if you saw them. The only thing Filipino about them is the food they like, and their skin color/physical appearance of course. #3 looks pretty damn similar to one of them actually. #1 also looks similar, but it's a bit harder to tell with his shades on.
Last edited by muto; 2016-07-15 at 09:15 PM.
So Asian! great job though guys.
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Thomas Jefferson High School in Fairfax County is a public school gated by essentially an IQ test. Everyone who goes there automatically gets into UVA, most go to Ivy's or similar.
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Actually, Americans won. This "fill in the blank"-American shit has gone way too far.
Expected to see various types of Asian and maybe some white guys that look like Bill Gates
Yep
China: We got this shit!
America: Think again.
China: Well....shit.
Thomas Jefferson is pretty fuckin' good. Quite a few schools are.
I don't think there's any real evidence that talent on this level is the sort of thing that comes from just getting a good school system, so I guess agree with your basic point. Anyone that either touts or takes shots at a system based on its best performers doesn't really get how any of this works.
That's pretty much PISA. PISA data looks about how I'd expect it to across countries. Getting more granular in the US, Asian-Americans are at the top of the scale along with Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Good Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. So basically the same thing we find in this competition.
I guess that shouldn't be too surprising either - even though top performers don't tell you much about a system, you'd expect to find the very top performers, on average, to come from among a group that has a high average score, unless you have a good reason to expect a lower group to have a really wide SD.
What most people outside the US don't understand is that if you pay top dollar you likely get some of the best education on the planet. If you are just shuffled though the public or lower level paid systems then you are just taught enough to fight in the military and work entry level potions up to the limit of middle management (if the right people like you).