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Why does it matter that she's Mexican?

ajkjk 6d ago
Stereotyped as less of a STEM country, probably accurately, so it seems newsworthy plus gives people hope and optimism to hear about cool inventions from there.
- bigstrat2003 6d ago
  Or, you know... people like to know more about the bright kid who came up with a cool idea. Not everything is racism.
  - ajkjk 6d ago
    either one, yeah
fkgkglgkkh 6d ago
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lern_too_spel 6d ago
Because it's a Chilean blog about feel good stories in Latin America, just like it says on the tin.
yesitcan 6d ago
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- pacomerh 6d ago
  oh boy, you're proving the opposite with this "clever" comment.
  - yesitcan 6d ago
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    - nomel 6d ago
      IQ by state [1]. Remove California, and it'll go up a bit! [1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/average-iq-by-state https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/average-iq-...
      - yesitcan 6d ago
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        lern_too_spel 5d ago
        I'm surprised that there are people who are still ignorant enough to parrot these talking points. https://erik-engheim.medium.com/historical-iq-tests-on-immigrants-6befd8706d73 https://erik-engheim.medium.com/historical-iq-tests-on-immig... The average IQ of Koreans is now the highest in the world, after making consistent gains of 8 points per decade for people born between the 1940s and the 1980s. Your ignorance, like IQ, is fixable.
        nomel 5d ago
        That article has a very silly conclusion with the whole obesity example, and doesn't understand the actual conclusion that the sensitivity analysis that these numbers are derived from, means (especially with their plant example).
        lern_too_spel 5d ago
        Foster families are not that different. I've seen multiple kids raised by parents who value education reading at age 2 and their cousins on either side reading at age 6 because their parents didn't value it. The changes in IQ possible by environmental differences are absolutely massive and clearly far larger than anything genetic aside from severe heritable brain disorders. That's what the Koreans and the Ashkenazim know and exploit. That's what made the large differences between European countries seen in the early 20th century disappear. The article's obesity conclusion is no less silly than your IQ beliefs.
- jamwil 6d ago
  Found the Argentinian.
- tomhow 5d ago
  Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
  - yesitcan 5d ago
    Is everything that offends you considered unsubstantive?
    - tomhow 5d ago
      Do you intend to observe the guidelines or not?
      - yesitcan 5d ago
        Do you like pineapple on your pizza? What does it feel like spending your weekend playing an endless game of whack a mole?
vlugorilla 6d ago
Seems to matter to you
- copper-float 6d ago
  No, it doesn't. You're just making a baseless assumption. There's nothing wrong with asking a neutral question. I wasn't implying anything, just wondering why it needs to be in the title.
- xtracto 5d ago
  Haha I loved this: in a thread where everybody is talking about the technology, the merits of the kid "discovering" it and all that, invariably there's the guy who enters the room and shouts "why does people care that she is Mexican!!" Like... nobody cared, until the guy mentions it. And then he replies back "no I don't care she's Mexican, why do you bring their origin!!!" FWIW I saw these news in my local news Spanish language sources (yep, Im Mexican too) a couple of days ago. And found the majority of the reporting at that time was exactly a "cool science project" thing. When I saw it here on HN I was surprised. I even thought like "wow, maybe I didn't put a lot of attention, and it's something bigger". But apparently it's just sloppy reporting, in a telephone-game kind of thing: Some Chilean news saw the headline, and decided to report it as "Mexican 16yo invents X", which draws clicks. Then English based news took it and further deformed the actual facts. Hopefully this kid gets invited to some podcasts or whatnot and gets something from this. Also hopefully it helps other kids get more interested in sciency projects.
rotringlvr 6d ago
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Stereotyped as less of a STEM country, probably accurately, so it seems newsworthy plus gives people hope and optimism to hear about cool inventions from there.

bigstrat2003 6d ago
Or, you know... people like to know more about the bright kid who came up with a cool idea. Not everything is racism.
- ajkjk 6d ago
  either one, yeah

fkgkglgkkh 6d ago

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lern_too_spel 6d ago

Because it's a Chilean blog about feel good stories in Latin America, just like it says on the tin.

yesitcan 6d ago

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pacomerh 6d ago
oh boy, you're proving the opposite with this "clever" comment.
- yesitcan 6d ago
  [flagged]
  - nomel 6d ago
    IQ by state [1]. Remove California, and it'll go up a bit! [1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/average-iq-by-state https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/average-iq-...
    - yesitcan 6d ago
      [flagged]
      - lern_too_spel 5d ago
        I'm surprised that there are people who are still ignorant enough to parrot these talking points. https://erik-engheim.medium.com/historical-iq-tests-on-immigrants-6befd8706d73 https://erik-engheim.medium.com/historical-iq-tests-on-immig... The average IQ of Koreans is now the highest in the world, after making consistent gains of 8 points per decade for people born between the 1940s and the 1980s. Your ignorance, like IQ, is fixable.
        nomel 5d ago
        That article has a very silly conclusion with the whole obesity example, and doesn't understand the actual conclusion that the sensitivity analysis that these numbers are derived from, means (especially with their plant example).
        lern_too_spel 5d ago
        Foster families are not that different. I've seen multiple kids raised by parents who value education reading at age 2 and their cousins on either side reading at age 6 because their parents didn't value it. The changes in IQ possible by environmental differences are absolutely massive and clearly far larger than anything genetic aside from severe heritable brain disorders. That's what the Koreans and the Ashkenazim know and exploit. That's what made the large differences between European countries seen in the early 20th century disappear. The article's obesity conclusion is no less silly than your IQ beliefs.
jamwil 6d ago
Found the Argentinian.
tomhow 5d ago
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
- yesitcan 5d ago
  Is everything that offends you considered unsubstantive?
  - tomhow 5d ago
    Do you intend to observe the guidelines or not?
    - yesitcan 5d ago
      Do you like pineapple on your pizza? What does it feel like spending your weekend playing an endless game of whack a mole?

vlugorilla 6d ago

Seems to matter to you

copper-float 6d ago
No, it doesn't. You're just making a baseless assumption. There's nothing wrong with asking a neutral question. I wasn't implying anything, just wondering why it needs to be in the title.
xtracto 5d ago
Haha I loved this: in a thread where everybody is talking about the technology, the merits of the kid "discovering" it and all that, invariably there's the guy who enters the room and shouts "why does people care that she is Mexican!!" Like... nobody cared, until the guy mentions it. And then he replies back "no I don't care she's Mexican, why do you bring their origin!!!" FWIW I saw these news in my local news Spanish language sources (yep, Im Mexican too) a couple of days ago. And found the majority of the reporting at that time was exactly a "cool science project" thing. When I saw it here on HN I was surprised. I even thought like "wow, maybe I didn't put a lot of attention, and it's something bigger". But apparently it's just sloppy reporting, in a telephone-game kind of thing: Some Chilean news saw the headline, and decided to report it as "Mexican 16yo invents X", which draws clicks. Then English based news took it and further deformed the actual facts. Hopefully this kid gets invited to some podcasts or whatnot and gets something from this. Also hopefully it helps other kids get more interested in sciency projects.

rotringlvr 6d ago

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