<p>
</p>
<p>I guess my question is –
leaving aside the many issues of lumping “Asians” together as a monolithic group for the sake of argument …</p>
<p>You could come at it two ways.
One is … Asians are genuinely smarter than Americans (as measured by SAT scores, and let’s pretend we all agree on that measure), regardless of work ethic.
OR … Asians are no more inherently smarter, but their work ethic and cultural background carries through to more intense studying and hence higher SAT scores.</p>
<p>What difference does it make from a policy standpoint if either of those things are true? What are the implications? Personally I don’t see what difference it makes if Asians are smarter inherently or by dint of hard work. Good for them either way.</p>