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Originally Posted by zoltan
Until you define what selection pressure is, your arguments are worthless. It's clear that you don't really understand the concept when you assert it acts differently between sexes. Citing Wikipedia outs you as one if those dudes who took bio 101, congrats!
You're a weirdo, man. Selection pressure occurs on traits which influence the number of offspring (and so on down the line) existing as a function of time.
Are you really so daft we need to do this? Most people here now see you as the fraud as you are after this discussion.
I quoted Wikiepdia because you lack even a basic understanding of the field. I'm embarrassed for you, frankly.
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Since ets is a for profit company, and their analysis is not peer reviewed, their data are nearly worthless.
Sure, I'll grant you that. But humanities peer review is worthless also given the powerful political pressures in the field, particularly around race and sex. What do we have left?
Even most of the negative literature admits some positive correlation.
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I've done analyses for the 6 universities I've worked at, and had this discussion with many researchers representing literally dozens of universities. No one has found sat scores to be particularly useful in predicting academic performance. What do I know though, it's just my specific area of expertise.
Expertise doesn't mean much. I can find polar opposite opinions among experts in contentious issues.
Like I said, it's all a coincidence that Asians outperform on all standardized tests of quantitative reasoning across continents and cultures, outperform in degrees that have heavy quantitative reasoning components, and outperform in jobs that rely on quantitative reasoning. All pure coincidence.
Last edited by ToothSayer; 08-13-2017 at 06:57 AM.