tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post7791954835350626643..comments2024-01-13T18:57:18.243-05:00Comments on Information Processing: The Myth of American MeritocracySteve Hsuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428333897272913660noreply@blogger.comBlogger63125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-29027436539765647862013-04-15T21:04:50.616-04:002013-04-15T21:04:50.616-04:00That was very insightful and something that most A...That was very insightful and something that most Asian Americans are aware of, but didn't have the evidence to back it up. A lot of hedge fund managers are lately being recruited out of ivy leagues, and their performance has been subpar. There is a disconnect now between Ivy League and IQ level. It would be better to directly use SAT score to asset IQ, instead of Ivy League education at this Raymond Kimnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-12759888614761085612013-02-02T15:01:57.806-05:002013-02-02T15:01:57.806-05:00As for this Asian woman fetish or thing , there a...As for this Asian woman fetish or thing , there are plenty of forums discussing it. go read the commentaries in those forums .biaknabatonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-16481111813325723542013-02-02T14:58:16.425-05:002013-02-02T14:58:16.425-05:00There is nothing wrong to do with having a dark sk...There is nothing wrong to do with having a dark skin , it is just an evolutionary manifestation just like blond hair and blue eyes.biaknabatonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-88104441953936924152013-02-02T14:56:37.095-05:002013-02-02T14:56:37.095-05:00Just read it today , i was referring more to the...Just read it today , i was referring more to the Dravidians of the South of India rather than people of the North like Punjab and Uttar Pradesh , people from the South of India are more likely to have darker skin tones than people from the North like that of Punjab and Uttar Pradesh. I am not going to discuss here the human trek from Africa down to the Indian subcontinent on to biaknabatonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-67565958281873448082013-02-02T09:47:53.160-05:002013-02-02T09:47:53.160-05:00No! That is ridiculous. "Body physiognomy&quo...No! That is ridiculous. "Body physiognomy"? (You added an extra "o". Spelling error snark ;o) You're saying that Indian people prosper because they physically resemble white and/ or Jewish people of "Western European or Middle Eastern" descent, thus white and/ or Jewish people like them better, and encourage Indians to thrive, whereas they discourage East Asians.Ellie Khttp://myindigolives.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-34711187693698949912013-02-02T09:34:04.978-05:002013-02-02T09:34:04.978-05:00No. That is the same as the comments in Tyler Cowe...No. That is the same as the comments in Tyler Cowen's "Marginal Revolution", that Steve Sailor said. Steve Sailor (Sailer?) says that Jews have "distinctly mediocre" mathematical abilities, and below normal "visio-spatial abilities". Steve Sailor also has a website that includes links to buying mail-order Asian brides, and he is an enthusiastic member of DARE, Ellie Khttp://myindigolives.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-53276349119950465472013-02-02T08:58:31.014-05:002013-02-02T08:58:31.014-05:00Yes, my experience was the same. I won an NMS, the...Yes, my experience was the same. I won an NMS, the sort that isn't sponsored by corporations. There were only two of us, in the entire state who were National Merit Scholarship winners. Our state was New Mexico. I am Jewish. Eileen was not. In fact, Eileen's parents immigrated from West Germany to the U.S.A. in the 1950's. Father was a physicist, mother was a chemist. Eileen's Ellie Khttp://myindigolives.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-18879118051851276602013-02-02T08:47:32.690-05:002013-02-02T08:47:32.690-05:00Cohen is NOT an unambiguously Jewish name. The U.S...Cohen is NOT an unambiguously Jewish name. The U.S. Secretary of Defense during a prior administration was named "Richard Cohen". He was <b>NOT</b> a "crypto-Jew", as I suspect would be the response. He did not look Jewish, not at all.<br /><br /><br />I realize that was a bad thing to say. I am allowed, as I am a middle-aged Jewish widow. In fact, that particular Secretary ofEllie Khttp://myindigolives.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-34793727146537950862012-12-16T20:18:55.761-05:002012-12-16T20:18:55.761-05:00Isn't the Wall Street sector also self -select...Isn't the Wall Street sector also self -selecting with regards to their racial choices at least on the management level? Actually a female Asian ex Wall Streeter published a book about it, can't get her name off my head right now........ Overcompensated sounds like Overrepresented..biaknabatonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-72330332595791916512012-12-16T20:07:44.946-05:002012-12-16T20:07:44.946-05:00Or because even if Indians have dark skins at leas...Or because even if Indians have dark skins at least many of them, their body physiogonomy is similar to people coming from Western Europe or the Middle East compared to East Asians , something which whites or Jews might find more applealing ? Despite your views Asians have been elected politicians even in places where they are not the largest racial group.In the media there is racial bias biaknabatonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-84759433806826433122012-12-16T19:53:51.718-05:002012-12-16T19:53:51.718-05:00And public universities are not dedicated to the ...And public universities are not dedicated to the STEM fields only........... how come in any state where Asians comes close to parity with the Jewish population of that state , there are more Asians than Jews in the flagship public university of that state, so why are the Ivies different ? And NYC is no different from California , in the freshman classes of Baruch College, CCNY there are biaknabatonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-14007739272555671902012-12-16T19:35:02.587-05:002012-12-16T19:35:02.587-05:00Well Asians might have other concerns like immigra...Well Asians might have other concerns like immigration of family members, health care for elderly parents , the perceived bias in favor of Christians by the Republicans etc Asians would have voted strongly against Obama because of his support for race preferences however they are looking for a whole mix of factorsbiaknabatonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-78776682773995802432012-12-16T19:31:01.891-05:002012-12-16T19:31:01.891-05:00And Berkeley and UCLA and other public schools hav...And Berkeley and UCLA and other public schools have different missions than Harvard ? I see no difference , all 3 schools produce undergrads who end up with doctorates in all fields.biaknabatonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-59499885185476083772012-12-16T19:26:50.045-05:002012-12-16T19:26:50.045-05:00Ultimately what Harvard would decide as an attract...Ultimately what Harvard would decide as an attractive student is an applicant that will likely ensure the financial and economic survival of Harvard and his grades be damned whether the school,the parent or the student knows it or not.biaknabatonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-10746892371429143192012-12-16T01:22:44.751-05:002012-12-16T01:22:44.751-05:00as someone who understands autism i am skeptical o...as someone who understands autism i am skeptical of dwbuddH.L. Mencken IInoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-63801596637900931152012-12-11T03:02:12.552-05:002012-12-11T03:02:12.552-05:00"It's my opinion that not amongst those r..."It's my opinion that not amongst those responsibilities is any sort of duty to groups of people (e.g., black, white, or Asians as a group). I reject fundamentally the principle that 'groups' have 'rights.' "<br /><br />Just exercising my contrarian tendencies (and I'm not Jewish) I wonder if you would agree that everyone has a right to be treated as if they jvcguestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-38350758191816276072012-12-05T05:10:37.023-05:002012-12-05T05:10:37.023-05:00Feynmann wasn't 125. That myth has got to die....Feynmann wasn't 125. That myth has got to die.Emil Ole William Kirkegaardnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-57457288493298045352012-12-04T16:19:30.241-05:002012-12-04T16:19:30.241-05:00Your reference to the previous discussion about Tw...Your reference to the previous discussion about Twitter reminds me of something I read a while back about Facebook hurting workplace productivity... :)<br /><br />http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9135795/Study_Facebook_use_cuts_productivity_at_work<br /><br />"Study: Facebook use cuts productivity at work<br /> Survey finds 77% of Facebookers use the social networking Yan Shenhttp://profiles.google.com/yanshen71786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-67313619224125404042012-12-04T13:19:09.931-05:002012-12-04T13:19:09.931-05:00Yan, I think your response with respect to the Har...Yan, I think your response with respect to the Harvard-Cal Tech question falls within the boundaries "reasonable." I would suggest that Cal Tech exists for one purpose, and Harvard for another. Hence, yes; one would expect the admissions criteria to be different for one versus the other. THIS is the question I had posed, fundamentally, and one that Professor Hsu essentially ignored, dwbuddhttp://twitter.com/dwbuddnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-51678868999491791812012-12-03T23:48:23.512-05:002012-12-03T23:48:23.512-05:00Simply count the number of Cohens, etc. (unambiguo...Simply count the number of Cohens, etc. (unambiguously Jewish names) answer what % of Jews have these names and extrapolate.<br />The state where Cohen is least common is N Dakota. Isn't it a good bet it has the smallest % of Jews? It does have the smallest % of lawyers.gide07noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-24907304892222479322012-12-03T23:46:04.403-05:002012-12-03T23:46:04.403-05:00It is believed by admissions people that all white...It is believed by admissions people that all whites with incomes less than x are obese, tattooed, goateed, retards (who vote Republican and hate black people).gide07noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-40423635450716725542012-12-03T23:42:01.937-05:002012-12-03T23:42:01.937-05:00The decline in the Jewish % in the contests listed...The decline in the Jewish % in the contests listed to 0% and the rise in the Asian % imply at least one of the following, none of which is acceptable to the bolg's author as far as I can tell:<br /><br />1. Parents make a difference.<br />2. These contest participants are specialists and aren't very smart. They are like Feynman (IQ = 125).<br />3. Jews are actully dumber than they used togide07noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-71655089232470904222012-12-03T22:53:32.370-05:002012-12-03T22:53:32.370-05:00What is particularly high. Is it 2.5 or 3 SDs? If ...What is particularly high. Is it 2.5 or 3 SDs? If so then, assuming all but the mean is the same, American Jews have a mean IQ only .35 to .5 SDs above the white gentile mean. This means that American Jews are outperforming what would be expected based on IQ alone. This is obviously true of Russian oligarchs. Then what is this extra which Jews have? <br /><br />Obviousy g for the population as a gide07noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-465100166309020062012-12-01T13:15:27.101-05:002012-12-01T13:15:27.101-05:00Russell K. Nieli on study by Thomas Espenshade and...Russell K. Nieli on study by Thomas Espenshade and Alexandria Radford (mentioned by Unz):<br /><br />“When lower-class whites are matched with lower-class blacks and other non-whites the degree of the non-white advantage becomes astronomical: lower-class Asian applicants are seven times as likely to be accepted to the competitive private institutions as similarly qualified whites, lower-class Amandanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-71814442270668217542012-11-30T15:00:20.817-05:002012-11-30T15:00:20.817-05:00Maybe we should look at the majors that Asian Amer...Maybe we should look at the majors that Asian American applicants to elite universities are declaring when they apply. I'm guessing they're disproportionately in quantitative subjects like math, computer science, engineering, etc. A school like Harvard is probably different from a school like Cal-Tech, in that the former is looking for students across a more balanced set of majors, ratherYan Shenhttp://profiles.google.com/yanshen71786noreply@blogger.com