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You really can't just throw your hands in the air and say "No, that's sampling bias." Do you have a source to support your claim?


A bit late on my answer, but this is a well-studied phenomenon:

http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports/2011/12/15-school-...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/education/education-gap-gr...

http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/109074/chapters/How-P...

Also, as trustfundbaby said earlier in the thread: "Group success in America often tends to dissipate after two generations. Thus while Asian-American kids overall had SAT scores 143 points above average in 2012 — including a 63-point edge over whites — a 2005 study of over 20,000 adolescents found that third-generation Asian-American students performed no better academically than white students"

I don't doubt that there is a significant Asian culture effect, but in this case it seems that the "immigrant effect" plays a big, if not greater role.




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