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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]WSJ Article "The Roots of STEM Excellence"

It should be one of the nation’s highest educational priorities to get its most brilliant STEM students into those elite universities. Until a few years ago, the California Institute of Technology was the model. 
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The record of achievement among Caltech graduates and faculty speaks for itself—46 Nobel Laureates, 66 awarded National Medals of Science and 75 elected to the National Academy of Sciences, all generated by a school that enrolls only about 1,000 undergraduates and 1,400 graduate students at a time.
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"Based on the known distribution of math talent at the highest level and sex differences in occupational preferences, the students in these elite STEM departments will be more than 90% Asian or white and more than 80% male. But some things are more important than having the correct demographic mix. Finding and developing one of our rarest and most precious human resources is one of them."[/quote]

People don't realize how important it is to human civilization to nurture the far right tail of the IQ distribution.
Having fusion energy 10 years sooner will make concerns about global warming almost evaporate.
AI and Robotics will make a lot of dangerous jobs (and traffic accidents) a thing of the past.
We aren't going to protest our way out of the really big problems, we are going to science our way out of it.  We are going to think our way out of it.

If we are concerned about the achievement gap then close the achievement gap.  
We know how to do it, we've known how to do it for years but we don't do it on the left because we don't want to tell URM to work harder and the right doesn't really care enough about closing the achievement gap to dedicate the effort and resources.
Don't undermine merit and PRETEND you've closed the achievement gap that's the worst of both worlds.[/quote]

Yet many people here still think cheating is merit. [/quote]

That's frequently driven by white supremacist impulses.

They have to justify why non-white people are doing better than them at something in spite of the incredibly racist society they pretend exists in america (sure there's some but not like they say).

The white supremacists on the left have always been there, but they only have permission to be racist against model minorities.  That's why you see gaza protests.[/quote]

Stop being a cheater apologist! This is clearly driven by the fact that many students were gaming the admissions by purchasing access to the test answers. I get it, but pretending that's merit is as ridiculous as it is misguided.[/quote]

The allegation that student were purchasing access to the test answers has been made several times. Could you please provide some evidence that this occurred? [/quote]

They can't.  I've asked multiple times for a link to a news article or story for a reputable source about this supposed 'cheating scandal.'   No one has ever provided anything beyond dcum or facebook anonymous posts as 'evidence.'  [/quote]

People responded multiple times to these requests but after the 5th-6th ask got tired of responding, but for anyone who is interested there were multiple links to a local news outlet, a TJ Facebook Group, the student paper and numerous first-hand accounts. This was thoroughly discussed about 50 pages back in this thread.[/quote]

You're playing stupid games and you're going to win stupid prizes.
The moderator of the board came in here to ask for evidence of these claims.
If there are news stories about students buying the tests before the tests are administered, then link them again, otherwise quit it.[/quote]

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