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@CandideIII @Steve_Sailer @jbarro Doesn't matter, as I keep saying, as colleges have been weighting grades far more than SAT scores for close to 20 years. And the reason Asians have moved ahead is a combo of things, but major change in test is part of it.
@CandideIII @Steve_Sailer @jbarro That is, the issue is grades, not test scores. And elites going to private schools are getting very good grades. There was just a study showing private school grade inflation is greater than public.
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@CandideIII @Steve_Sailer @jbarro The white kids getting hit hard by the Asian dominance in grades are not the elites that Douthat is yapping about, but the middle and upper middle class--the kids that are being shut out of the elite publics by Asian grades and don't have the connections or money for private unis
@CandideIII @Steve_Sailer @jbarro The problem that both Douthat and Steve can't grasp is how utterly irrelevant SAT scores are anymore. A white or Asian kid with a 3.8 GPA isn't going anywhere, even with a 1600 SAT score.

I wish people would stop making these comments so I didn't have to repeat it.
@CandideIII @Steve_Sailer @jbarro If (big if) the elites are really adopting this religion, it's not out of fear of competition. And the next tier down, upper middle class, I would doubt they really adopted the religion, because they know full well that they can't compete against rich whites without merit.
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@Steve_Sailer @CharlesNegy I still don't think that's quite right, although I agree that Asians did lose a key battle because Napolitano is no longer concerned about white support. But it's grades, more than SAT scores, that hurts whites vis a vis Asians.
@Steve_Sailer @CharlesNegy It was the post 1997 change, when the UCs made GPA 75% of the admission decision, that Asians dominated over whites. Meanwhile, blacks and Hispanics in majority minority schools, had GPAs they could never achieve in diverse high schools. educationrealist.wordpress.com/2017/08/01/gpa…
@Steve_Sailer @CharlesNegy I would argue that whites simply have quit trying to get into the UCs. Unless their kid has a 4.0 in their sophomore year, there's no point in even trying. It's gotten worse since 2006, after the second SAT change, when they reduced the weight of the subject tests.....
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1. Burr, etc, sold their stock, knowing that investors would panic.
2. Investors panicked.
3. Because investors panicked, pressure on fed/states grew even though public less than concerned.
4. Quarantine, creating real econ depression.
5. WSJ--hey, maybe panic was dumb.
But panic is what the *investors* did, not the public. No matter how dire the politicians got, no matter how serious the warnings, there are *lots* of people who think this is nonsense.

So it's hideous that Burr lied, but any non-Senator could have sold in January as well.
The media really doesn't understand its role in this, which is pretty horrible. They CREATED the pressures. Along with lawyers. Because what any modern society needs is an activist media and eager lawyers.
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On my drive up here, I was listening to @JonahDispatch and @smarick on The Remnant. It was very wonky, on things I don't usually fuss about, but there was like a five minute interlude I found very interesting--I mean, the whole thing was fine, but this was revealing.
@JonahDispatch @smarick Jonah was going on about how our ed schools present a Zinnian version of the universe, and that this is what teachers are taught and go out and teach their kids.

Andy Smarick pushed back , saying yeah, that's what the top schools do, but teachers are ideologically diverse
@JonahDispatch @smarick Jonah responded by saying yeah, but you know how all reporters want to work for the Times and the Post (pre-internet), so they all skew left, so too do teachers.
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