Does this graph on wikpedia make sense?

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<p>Do you think people are posting wrong information on websites and reflecting it that way. Is it trustworthy? </p>

<p>It does not make sense. Who controls posting on wikpedia? Somehow I think it could be a prank and very poor quailty attitude on behalf of a student. </p>

<p>On other hand, if it is correct, america needs to spend more money in urban school districts as this could have a very serious national secuirty problem as we need every citizen to have a leg up in a competitive global economy.</p>

<p><a href=“http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/1995-SAT-Income.png[/url]”>http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/1995-SAT-Income.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>this is a wrong information and I must admit I made a terrible mistake the question the validity of the wikpedia. Belive me I did not know. </p>

<p>How could delete this thread?</p>

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<p>Although it’s not the same information, check out [url=<a href=“http://dpi.state.wi.us/eis/pdf/dpi2005_114.pdf]this[/url”>http://dpi.state.wi.us/eis/pdf/dpi2005_114.pdf]this[/url</a>] .pdf file from the state of Wisconsin. The last page shows similar income vs. SAT score growth.</p>

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<p>The significance of the chart is that white with family income at below 10K scores higher than black with income above 70K. Same thing for asian if only math score is counted (not from the chart, but from the original table from the college board.) And the total SAT score of Asian with 10K/below income can match that of black with 60-70K income. So you can blame it all on socioeconomic status. For white when your income go up from below 10K to above 70K it is worth 125 points in SAT. But ethnic difference between black and white average about 170 points. Ethnicity is much more important than socioeconomic status. You can have Vietnamese going to the same urban school with other URM and yet the Vietnamese are at the top. That is why the 4% rule in Calif (where UC accepts the top 4% of ANY high school) does not help the URM much. This is why colleges are not willing to replace racial AA by socioeconomic AA. Fundamentally the URM have to reexamine their value on education and family, otherwise the achievement gap cannot be narrowed.</p>