I think you are correct, although I don’t really know what selection bias is. My experience, new Canadians are dead serious about achieving success, the Canadian educated seem poorly equipped in the face of adversity, it is an affront to their sensibilities, they get all righteous. Maybe they’re harder to exploit, while newbies are desperate and will climb the mountain.
I think you are correct, although I don’t really know what selection bias is. My experience, new Canadians are dead serious about achieving success, the Canadian educated seem poorly equipped in the face of adversity, it is an affront to their sensibilities, they get all righteous. Maybe they’re harder to exploit, while newbies are desperate and will climb the mountain.
Ya only winners get in, or to get in you have to be a winner. My observation is a little different. My mid thirties Trinidadian director told of Monday morning assembly at school wherein corporal punishment is administered to bad kids. The other managers went nuts with funny stories about school from Pakistan, Iran, China, Venezuela and they all agreed it was a bad idea to tell the parents, they would also beat them. That’s a pretty different ethos.
If you're not dead serious about achieving success in the first place, you don't emigrate to a new country in the pursuit of it. So your immigrant sample is made up of go-getters to begin with, while your native Canadian sample includes a lot of people who would never go to such lengths to pursue success.
There's also the powerful incentive of potential humiliation. Anybody who was forced to return to India/China/whatever after failing to make it in the promised land of the industrialized West would be branded a loser and mocked on the street.
I think you are correct, although I don’t really know what selection bias is. My experience, new Canadians are dead serious about achieving success, the Canadian educated seem poorly equipped in the face of adversity, it is an affront to their sensibilities, they get all righteous. Maybe they’re harder to exploit, while newbies are desperate and will climb the mountain.
Sorry to be thick but spell it out for me
Ya only winners get in, or to get in you have to be a winner. My observation is a little different. My mid thirties Trinidadian director told of Monday morning assembly at school wherein corporal punishment is administered to bad kids. The other managers went nuts with funny stories about school from Pakistan, Iran, China, Venezuela and they all agreed it was a bad idea to tell the parents, they would also beat them. That’s a pretty different ethos.
If you're not dead serious about achieving success in the first place, you don't emigrate to a new country in the pursuit of it. So your immigrant sample is made up of go-getters to begin with, while your native Canadian sample includes a lot of people who would never go to such lengths to pursue success.
Ok simple, they select.
Bingo!
There's also the powerful incentive of potential humiliation. Anybody who was forced to return to India/China/whatever after failing to make it in the promised land of the industrialized West would be branded a loser and mocked on the street.