In recent years there much has been made of the successes of ethnic Asian students in the US. But surveys have also revealed a parallel phenomenon of ethnic Asians running away from school, taking drugs and so on. Their number includes both the best and the worst.
但不少研究也顯示，其實亞裔學生不見個個都表現得那麼好，類似退學、逃學、吸毒等表現很差的例子也不在少數，亞裔學生的成就，形成「極好、極壞」的兩極化分佈。