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"Success! Hispanics no longer dropping out to work"

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

The article is deliberately misleading. It's not 77% not ready for college. It's 77% of those who took the SAT are not ready for college. What % of students even bothered to take the SAT? They don't get into that.

Regardless, for a long time now, I've considered today's bachelor's degrees to be high school diplomas 2.x beta.

A high school graduates 50 years ago were actually literate and functional. I can't confidently say the same for today's college graduates.

5/10/13, 12:56 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I am impressed beyond measure Steve - you're firing on all 13 cylinders!!

youngalexander

5/10/13, 1:23 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Steve, are you eating or sleeping? Meth?

5/10/13, 5:49 AM

Anonymous Jonathan Silber said...

Wow: Latinos pulling even with blacks in school!

The future for America just got brighter.

5/10/13, 5:51 AM

Anonymous stari_momak said...

Fewer than 3 of 10, dammit!

5/10/13, 6:51 AM

Anonymous Chicago said...

It might be a wrong assumption that Hispanics care much about gaps or want to imitate other groups. They have their own lives and many do quite well. They own their own homes, own cars, often own businesses, have plenty of food, big-screen televisions, etc etc. They prefer to get started early in life, working, getting married young. Most don't want to go to school until their mid-twenties; school up to age 16-17 is plenty for most of them. Few seem to want jobs sitting in cubicles for hours at a time staring into computer screens. They have their niche and seem to be comfortable with it.

5/10/13, 6:54 AM

Anonymous Big Bill said...

Where i live, Mexicans have discovered the student aid scam. Sign up for classes at a two year college (they HAVE to take you around here), get the automatic $5500 Federal aid package, drop out before the deadline, then get a refund from the school. It is one of those nasty things that Progressive Professionals don't like to tell the general public, like how often sodomites show up in a typical emergency room with large objects wedged in their anus, or all the Muslim and African girls in The Twin Cities whose mamas and aunties chopped off their privates.

5/10/13, 8:09 AM

Blogger pat said...

I don't quite understand why Hispanics do less well that 'Natives'. Presumably the Natives are Amerindians, but so are the Hispanics. Or am I wrong?

What we call Latins or Hispanics are typically a mixture of whites and Amerindians. There are some black genes mixed in also, especially in Brazil, but not so much in Mexico.

What we call Hispanics have a very wide range of mixture proportions. In the US Senate we have Cruz and Rubio who appear to be almost solely Caucasian. Mayor Villaraigosa appears to be almost completely Amerindian. Both groups find it politically expedient to be labeled Hispanic.

I would expect that white oriented Hispanics would have average IQs like whites - about 100. Whereas Amerindian oriented Hispanics should have an average IQ of around 90.

But in the graph presented the Hispanics score lower than the Amerindians. It must be that the Hispanics chosen in this graph are heavy with people from the left side of the distribution. That could be if we selected just rural peasants rather than a broader sample. And that's what I think it must be.

Am I wrong?

Albertosaurus

5/10/13, 9:02 AM

Anonymous David said...

>killing time at community colleges waiting for the economy to improve<

Sounds like what a lot of people, even adults, are doing back home in Tennessee.

5/10/13, 9:23 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I thought I sucked at math, but apparently I was killing it when I took the SAT, according to these averages.

- Gatsby

5/10/13, 10:18 AM

Anonymous E. Rekshun said...

Or robbing ATMs...

In Hours, Thieves Took $45 Million in A.T.M. Scheme, NYT, 05/09/13

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/10/nyregion/eight-charged-in-45-million-global-cyber-bank-thefts.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0

"...hackers infiltrated the system of an unnamed Indian credit-card processing company that handles Visa and MasterCard prepaid debit cards. Such companies are attractive to cybercriminals because they are considered less secure than financial institutions...The authorities said the leader of the New York cashing crew was Alberto Lajud-Peña, 23, whose body was found in the Dominican Republic late last month..."

5/10/13, 10:20 AM

Blogger nooffensebut said...

@ Pat

"I would expect that white oriented Hispanics would have average IQs like whites - about 100. Whereas Amerindian oriented Hispanics should have an average IQ of around 90."

The studies that I have seen suggest that Native Americans in the US and Canada actually tend to have less Native American ancestry and more European ancestry than Hispanic Americans. This is probably not the case in Latin America.

5/10/13, 1:37 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Speaking of the SAT, did you catch this story? " For the First Time, SAT Test Gets Canceled in an Entire Country", Kayla Webley, Time.com.

Sounds like widespread cheating in South Korea.

"...cancel the exam after discovering test questions circulating in test-prep centers in the country..."

Makes you wonder how much of this goes on. It's getting hard to find an honest crook.

5/10/13, 9:51 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Speaking of the SAT, did you catch this story? " For the First Time, SAT Test Gets Canceled in an Entire Country", Kayla Webley, Time.com.

"Sounds like widespread cheating in South Korea.

"...cancel the exam after discovering test questions circulating in test-prep centers in the country..."

Makes you wonder how much of this goes on. It's getting hard to find an honest crook."

It would be virtually impossible for Asian-Americans to cheat on the massive scale necessary to produce the Asian differential in math performance, year after year. Also, if they cheat on the SATs, why doesn't that show in the verbal section as well? After all, once you have a copy of the test, it's just a matter of memorization.

5/10/13, 11:57 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Taranto had this today. The Pew press release is baldly deceptive on the arithmetic--you don't even have to go further into the statistical accuracy. Of course the innumerate media published what they were told to publish.

5/11/13, 3:23 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

according to unsilenced science more than 100% of asians take the test, so many asians who are not in USA take the test, how do they compare to the ones in US?

5/11/13, 7:27 AM

Blogger nooffensebut said...

"so many asians who are not in USA take the test, how do they compare to the ones in US?"

The College Board's annual reports do not break down foreigner scores by race, but the number of foreigners is about half the number of Asians, and the American-foreigner gap roughly overlaps with the Asian-white gap, as shown here. My (Unsilenced Science) conclusion is that Asian Americans might have a little better English skills than foreign Asian students, but math scores reflect a global Asian culture of academic success.

5/11/13, 9:04 AM

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