The mean number of hours studied per week by high school seniors looks like this: Asians, 3.9; whites, 3.4; Hispanics and blacks, 2.0. Asian teens study roughly twice as much as other minorities.
Academic apologists work full-time concocting reasons for the racial gaps we see, but how do we blame homework differences on malevolent, discriminatory whites? Homework is done at home with no whites looking over your shoulder. The schools provide even poor minority kids with books and materials for assignments. Parents and kids simply decide how much time gets devoted to studying.
You might respond that minority kids are given less homework because of the "bigotry of low expectations." But why do Asians do more than whites? If you answer that schools are just following stereotypes, so schools with lots of Asian students assign more homework, it simply starts to seem like schools might respond to what students are like, or hardworking families select schools with higher expectations.
It just becomes absurd to pin these racial gaps on anything at all bad that whites do. Again and again, we see that whites are mediocre. What sort of white supremacist country sorts whites into the undistinguished middle? I want a better brand of supremacy!
After reading Lynn's descriptions on more than 700 studies from dozens of countries, Occam's Razor demands the simplest explanation: the races are internally different.
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