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<p>Come on. You can look up the data yourself. It’s all over the internet.</p>
<p>There is a positive correlation between income and SAT scores. No shock there. But, the curves for blacks and asians are so shifted that even low income Asians are outperforming blacks making 3 times as much. Clearly, socioeconomics don’t explain everything (which I agree with alias95 on). I do think most of the difference is due to cultural factors (which I can speak to having attended a school that was 90% black for 6 years and a school that was 70% Asian for another 4 years). </p>
<p>This is why I’m a proponent of affirmative action based on race. AA is not to reward people for overcoming socioeconomic adversity. If it were, we’d accept poor Asians and poor blacks equally. Instead, being a rich black person who scores 2000 is somehow still more impressive than being a poor Asian person who scores 2100. And that’s why being a rich black will still be more valuable in college admissions than being a poor Asian.</p>