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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If merit were not real there would be no problem of Asian students working too hard and consequently succeeding too much. You have to pick one, either schools like TJ/MIT/etc are full of Asians because they are genetically advantaged (merit) or because they work super hard (also merit). Obviously opportunities in life are not evenly distributed, but to leap from that to “merit isn’t real” is just sophomoric. Looking at the correlation between wealthy parents and high achieving kids is a lot like looking at the phenomenon of NFL families. [b]The children of NFL players are wildly more likely to make it to the NFL themselves than the general population.[/b] Obviously that is at least partially because they have access to all the camps, coaching, training available. It is also obviously true that NFL players are genetic outliers and their kids are far more likely than average to be genetic outliers themselves. [/quote] Do you have a cite?[/quote]
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