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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Chinese- and Indian-ancestry kids who are in America predominately come from families who could, for cultural,  biological, and genetic reasons, study hard and perform well on tests. In many cases these traits were selected for over millennia. America is fortunate to have these smart and hard-working families and kids. Hopefully their smarts and grit doesn’t get beat out of them by the system.

It’s insane that we can’t say these Asian kids perform better in part because they are just biologically smarter than the average non-Asian American kid. Academic achievement is at least 50% genetic in early childhood, and even more so as kids get older. 
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It may be cultural but it’s not genetic. Academics are largely about inputs and dose-dependent. Any kid send to AOPS for a year will outperform peers and see big personal increases in scores. [/quote]

It is not genetic.

30 years ago, I worked for the research department of JHU’s CTY.

We identified gifted and talented kids by, in 7th grade, giving them the SAT (yes, they took the full SAT in 7th grade).

Kids scoring above 930 combined were qualified for our accelerated summer courses.  Of the talented kids we identified:

1/3 of the kids were Asian; another 1/3rd self-identified as Jewish.  The remaining 1/3rd were a mix of every remaining group.

That tells you the deciding factor is:  culture.

By the way, of the non Asian, non Jewish kids, very few were Hispanic, and fewer still were AA.  Even back then, we had many extra outreach programs to inner city schools, waived test fees, subsidized transportation on test days, etc. to try to compensate and identify academically talented AA and Hispanic kids.

The problem was education was not prioritized the same way across every household, the difference being cultural.[/quote]

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