Dr. K
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And I was like, this is insane.
I sat between two thisses.
It's like very weird.
So there's absolutely something going on.
So if something is going on, there must be a scientific โ you could do something like a logistic regression analysis and try to figure it out.
I think we have a lot of advantages.
So I think that one thing is that there's like a selection bias.
Indians aren't the only ones, but I think you can look at โ like Nigerians is another example that people don't โ they're kind of โ people are sleeping on, but โ
So I think there's a lot of brain drain, right?
So if you look at like, my parents were both doctors,
And so I grew up with certain financial advantages where I could afford to apply to medical school for three.
I didn't get accepted to medical school for two years.
I applied 120 times, got accepted finally with number 120.
But just if you look at the amount of money it takes to do that, to survive for three years and just keep applying to medical school, not many people can do that.
So I think one of the reasons that you see so many successful Indians in America is because they just have financial advantages.
So like who goes to โ like all of my kids' friends, their parents like who came from India like all went to IIT.
So there's just a real financial advantage.
I think there's also a cultural advantage.
So my dad was like poor.
Like his parents were in debt.