FOX SMARTEST KID IN AMERICA 90% ASIAN z41\doc\web\2000\05\smart.txt Fox Smartest Kid in America out of top 10, 9 boys, 1 south Asian girl of 9 boys, 1 white, 8 Asian To: H-Bd@egroups.com From: steveslr@aol.com Date sent: Wed, 10 May 2000 13:41:59 EDT Subject: [h-bd] "Smartest Kid in America show": H-Bd angles [ Double-click this line for list subscription options ] Steve Sailer here: To counter ABC's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire quiz show, Fox ran a two hour special game show last night to find the "Smartest Kid in America," also called "The Battle of the Child Geniuses." The demographics of the contestants might be of interest, although most members of H-Bd would have been able to guess fairly accurately the racial backgrounds of the best performers. 50 contestants, none more than 12 years old were introduced. All had some credential to qualify them (e.g., "I Scored in the 98th percentile among high school seniors on the SAT."). A general knowledge quiz eliminated 40. Of the top ten, 9 were boys. The one girl was a tall South Asian. Then a College Bowl-style one-on-on speed quiz cut the ranks to 5. They were all boys. There was one white kid, a redhead named Michael; one kid with a white dad and East Asian mom named John; an Asian looking boy named Bernard Binder (he might have been part-white, but he looked all East Asian); a very large Chinese boy who was a classical music pianist; and Sam Bhagwhat, a South Asian. The first three survived the next series of questions (one white, one East Asian, one white/Asian). The East Asian boy Bernard was eliminated on an extremely hard question. Then the redhead and the Eurasian boys battled. The Eurasian boy, who was a very good looking kid, but had a lot of facial tics, was an extremely fast math calculator (e.g., "What is the average of all the even integers between -5 and 7?" Instantaneously, he answered: "One") My wife suggested he might have Tourette's Syndrome, which apparently can speed up mental proceses. The redhead wasn't quite the math prodigy, but they both knew a lot of science, and the redhead knew more history and literature, so eventually he emerged victorious. So, no surprises demographically. Personally, I think I would have finished third or fourth. Steve Sailer www.iSteve.com President, Human Biodiversity Institute ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bids starting at $7 for thousands of products - uBid.com http://click.egroups.com/1/3027/11/_/64659/_/957980589/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ How to contribute to H-Bd: 1. To reply privately to just the sender of this message, click the "Reply" button on your email package. 2. To reply publicly to the entire H-Bd list, click the "Reply All" (or equivalent) button on your email package. 3. To start a thread, email your message to h-bd@egroups.com