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> Eastern Europeans and Asians have a larger percentage of people who end up good at math compared to the US.

These are two different claims:

Eastern Europeans and Asians who are in the US have a larger percentage of people who end up good at math.*

Eastern Europeans and Asians who are in their respective countries have a larger percentage of people who end up good at math.*

If you are making the first claim, you're just restating the parent comment's survivorship bias claim. If you're making the second, then you are making a strong claim, but it would be interesting to see data behind it. (I don't have any insight one way or the other.)



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