A 11:46 AM 5/5/99 +0100, Dave Gordon, School for Policy Studies a écrit :
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>> The allegation was that the Asian students were cheating more than the
>> Canadian students!
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>Between 4 and 5 billion people live in Asia, while 29 million live in
>Canada. Why would any rational person believe that you could group
>together students from such desperate countries as China, Indonesia,
>Korea, Mongolia, Philippines, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, etc. under the
>single group 'asian' and then show that they were more likely to cheat
>than 'Canadian' students who I presume also must come from just a
>single ethnic group?
Please don't blame me for that one. This is the result of the euphemistic
language used by the university to describe the nationality or ethnicity of
students. Based on the ethnic composition of students in science and
engineering at this institution, one might conjecture the students in
question are primarily southern Chinese from Hong Kong and elsewhere.
David Klein
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