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The Real Indian IQ - G.Subramaniam - 02-25-2013
National Merit 2013, Washington State
Ahluwalia = Khatri
Gulati = Khatri
Patel = Patel
Sirohi = Khatri
Bachan = Kayasth
Thevuthasan = Tamil Velala
Singh = Jat Sikh
Sukumar = Nair
Malik = Khatri
Sanjay = SIB
Jayaram = SIB
Jain = Jain
Narayanan = SIB
Ranade = SIB
Sanu = NIB
Sriram = SIB
Palekar = SIB
Shyamkumar = SIB
Srivatsan = SIB
Ramesh = SIB
The Real Indian IQ - G.Subramaniam - 02-25-2013
Above, Total = 20
SIB = 9
Khatri = 4
Jain = 1
NIB = 1
The brahmin-khatri-jain combo has 15 / 20 slots
The Real Indian IQ - G.Subramaniam - 02-27-2013
2013 National Merit, Orange County, California
Total = 254 slots
Mehta = NIB-guj
Patel = Patel
Patel = Patel
Shah = NI-bania-guj
Mahesh = SIB
Patel = Patel
Pasricha = Rajput
Rohit = SIB
Ghanshani = Sindhi
Patil = Maratha
Ghosh = Kayastha- bengali
Paladugu = Kamma
Sheth = Jain
Janardan = SIB
Raj = Rajput
Attal = Maheshwari bania
Nandan = SIB
Total = 17
Asian Indian in Orange County = 420
Strike rate = 4%
IQ = 135 - 28 = 107
The Real Indian IQ - G.Subramaniam - 02-27-2013
Palo Alto, California, 2013 National Merit
Total = 67
Kannan = SIB
Sarathy = SIB
Ahuja = Khatri
Singh = Rajput
Ram = SIB
Total Indians = 44
Strike rate = 11%
IQ = 135 - 18 = 117
The Real Indian IQ - G.Subramaniam - 02-28-2013
National Merit 2013, Michigan
Total = 66
Premkumar = SIB
Lalitha = SIB
Ananya = NIB
Saha = Kayastha, bengali
Sahay = Kayastha
Sarkar = Kayastha, Bengali
Datta = Kayastha, Bengali
Puttagunta = Kamma
Khatri = Khatri
Bijlani = Sindhi
Chand = Khatri
Desai = NIB-guj
Dogra = Rajput
Iyer = SIB
Kapadia = NI bania
Pranav = SIB
Mishra = NIB
Anusha = SIB
Reddy = Reddy
Bansal = NI bania
Bhandari = Rajput
Desai = NIB - guj
Prasad = SIB
Ravi = SIB
Hiremath = Lingayat
Jain = Jain
Prabhu = Kayasth
Sondhi = Khatri
Tadepalli = Kamma
Taranath = NIB - bengali
Veluswamy = Tamil Velala
Roy = NIB - bengali
Tata = Parsi
Siva = SIB
Anishetty = Shetty
Anisha = SIB
Bolineni = Kamma
Aditi = SIB
Kanneganti = Kamma
Iyer = SIB
Sharma = NIB
Shekar = SIB
Venugopal = SIB
Kakar = Khatri
Munugula = Kamma
Nistala = Kamma
Ravipati = Kamma
Vidya = SIB
Swaminathan = SIB
Tetali = Kamma
Patke = SIB
Krishnan = SIB
Wadhwa = Khatri
Venkatesh = SIB
Murali = SIB
Patel = Patel
Ghosh = Bengali Kayastha
Aditya = SIB
Chandra = Khatri
Lavanya = SIB
Karthik = SIB
Maruthi = SIB
Sivaraman = SIB
Ganapati = SIB
Priya = NI bania
Janardan = SIB
The Real Indian IQ - G.Subramaniam - 04-01-2013
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/the-long-and-short-of-open-defecation/article4505664.ece
There is statistical data to show that the height of Indian children is correlated to their and their neighbourhoodââ¬â¢s access to toilets
You can learn a lot from measuring childrenââ¬â¢s height. How tall a child has grown by the time she is a few years old is one of the most important indicators of her well-being. This is not because height is important in itself, but because height reflects a childââ¬â¢s early-life health, absorbed nutrition and experience of disease.
Because health problems that prevent children from growing tall also prevent them from growing into healthy, productive, smart adults, height predicts adult mortality, economic outcomes and cognitive achievement. The first few years of life have critical life-long consequences. Physical or cognitive development that does not happen in these first years is unlikely to be made up later.
So it is entirely appropriate that news reports in India frequently mention child stunting or malnutrition. Indian children are among the shortest in the world. Such widespread stunting is both an emergency for human welfare and a puzzle.
Why are Indian children so short? Stunting is often considered an indicator of ââ¬Åmalnutrition,ââ¬Â which sometimes suggests that the problem is that children donââ¬â¢t have enough food. Although it is surely a tragedy that so many people in India are hungry, and it is certainly the case that many families follow poor infant feeding practices, food appears to be unable to explain away the puzzle of Indian stunting.
ââ¬ËASIAN ENIGMAââ¬â¢
One difficult fact to explain is that children in India are shorter, on average, than children in Africa, even though people are poorer, on average, in Africa. This surprising fact has been called the ââ¬ÅAsian enigma.ââ¬Â The enigma is not resolved by genetic differences between the Indian population and others. Babies adopted very early in life from India into developing countries grow much taller. Indeed, history is full of examples of populations that were deemed genetically short but eventually grew as tall as any other when the environment improved.
So, what input into child health and growth is especially poor in India? One answer that I explore in a recent research paper is widespread open defecation, without using a toilet or latrine. Faeces contain germs that, when released into the environment, make their way onto childrenââ¬â¢s fingers and feet, into their food and water, and wherever flies take them. Exposure to these germs not only gives children diarrhoea, but over the long term, also can cause changes in the tissues of their intestines that prevent the absorption and use of nutrients in food, even when the child does not seem sick.
More than half of all people in the world who defecate in the open live in India. According to the 2011 Indian census, 53 per cent of households do not use any kind of toilet or latrine. This essentially matches the 55 per cent found by the National Family Health Survey in 2005.
Open defecation is not so common elsewhere. The list of African countries with lower percentage rates of open defecation than India includes Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and more. In 2008, only 32 per cent of Nigerians defecated in the open; in 2005, only 30 per cent of people in Zimbabwe did. No country measured in the last 10 years has a higher rate of open defecation than Bihar. Twelve per cent of all people worldwide who openly defecate live in Uttar Pradesh.
So, can high rates of open defecation in India statistically account for high rates of stunting? Yes, according to data from the highly-regarded Demographic and Health Surveys, an international effort to collect comparable health data in poor and middle-income countries.
International differences in open defecation can statistically account for over half of the variation across countries in child height. Indeed, once open defecation is taken into consideration, Indian stunting is not exceptional at all: Indian children are just about exactly as short as would be expected given sanitation here and the international trend. In contrast, although it is only one example, open defecation is much less common in China, where children are much taller than in India.
Further analysis in the paper suggests that the association between child height and open defecation is not merely due to some other coincidental factor. It is not accounted for by GDP or differences in food availability, governance, female literacy, breastfeeding, immunisation, or other forms of infrastructure such as availability of water or electrification. Because changes over time within countries have an effect on height similar to the effect of differences across countries, it is safe to conclude that the effect is not a coincidental reflection of fixed genetic or cultural differences. I do not have space here to report all of the details of the study, nor to properly acknowledge the many other scholars whose work I draw upon; I hope interested readers will download the full paper at http://goo.gl/PFy43.
DOUBLE THREAT
Of course, poor sanitation is not the only threat to Indian childrenââ¬â¢s health, nor the only cause of stunting. Sadly, height reflects many dimensions of inequality within India: caste, birth order, womenââ¬â¢s status. But evidence suggests that socially privileged and disadvantaged children alike are shorter than they would be in the absence of open defecation.
Indeed, the situation is even worse for Indian children than the simple percentage rate of open defecation suggests. Living near neighbours who defecate outside is more threatening than living in the same country as people who openly defecate but live far away. This means that height is even more strongly associated with the density of open defecation: the average number of people per square kilometre who do not use latrines. Thus, stunting among Indian children is no surprise: they face a double threat of widespread open defecation and high population density.
The importance of population density demonstrates a simple fact: Open defecation is everybodyââ¬â¢s problem. It is the quintessential ââ¬Åpublic badââ¬Â with negative spillover effects even on households that do not practise it. Even the richest 2.5 per cent of children ââ¬â all in urban households with educated mothers and indoor toilets ââ¬â are shorter, on average, than healthy norms recommend. They do not openly defecate, but some of their neighbours do. These privileged children are almost exactly as short as children in other countries who are exposed to a similar amount of nearby open defecation.
If open defecation indeed causes stunting in India, then sanitation reflects an emergency not only for health, but also for the economy. After all, stunted children grow into less productive adults.
It is time for communities, leaders, and organisations throughout India to make eliminating open defecation a top priority. This means much more than merely building latrines; it means achieving widespread latrine use. Latrines only make people healthier if they are used for defecation. They do not if they are used to store tools or grain, or provide homes for the family goats, or are taken apart for their building materials. Any response to open defecation must take seriously the thousands of publicly funded latrines that sit unused (at least as toilets) in rural India. Perhaps surprisingly, giving people latrines is not enough.
Ending a behaviour as widespread as open defecation is an immense task. To its considerable credit, the Indian government has committed itself to the work, and has been increasing funding for sanitation. Such a big job will depend on the collaboration of many people, and the solutions that work in different places may prove complex. The assistant responsible for rural sanitation at your local Block Development Office may well have one of the most important jobs in India. Any progress he makes could be a step towards taller children ââ¬â who become healthier adults and a more productive workforce.
(Dean Spears is an economics PhD candidate at Princeton University and visiting researcher at the Delhi School of Economics.)
The Real Indian IQ - G.Subramaniam - 04-01-2013
Above article says that due to public defecating, lots of fly based diseases spread and this leads to stunting even in upper middle class kids and not directly mentioned in article, stunting also leads to lower IQ
Perhaps thats why diaspora Indians score so much higher in IQ
The Real Indian IQ - G.Subramaniam - 04-09-2013
The arguments in the Dorairajan case in the Madras High Court, 1951, bring this out very clearly. The court is told that if the Communal GO had not existed and selection to the roughly 400 seats in government engineering colleges were made solely on ââ¬Åmeritââ¬Â, i e, in terms of a ranking based on the marks obtained in the qualifying examination, then brahmins would have obtained 249 seats instead of the 77 they were allotted under their communal quota. The court sees this as clear evidence of injustice against brahmins, with no attempt to reflect on how a republic committed to ending caste inequalities ought to deal with a situation where a historically privileged community numbering 3% of the population would corner 62% of the seats in a state-subsidised engineering college
The Real Indian IQ - G.Subramaniam - 04-10-2013
2013 National Geographic Bee
out of 52 State winners
Pranit Nanda = NI-bania Khatri
Sanjeev Uppalari = SIB
Amrit Singh = Jat Sikh
Praneeta Nalluri = SIB
Abhinav Karthikeyan = SIB
Karnik = Kayasth CKP
Neha Middela = Reddy
A. Misra = NIB
N.Sandhu = Jat Sikh
H.Palani = Velala
Sai Vaddadi = SIB
Patel = Patel
Adithyan Sujithkumar = Nair
Chinmay Murthy = SIB
A.Rekulapelli = Kamma
Jain = Jain
Total = 16
The Real Indian IQ - G.Subramaniam - 04-12-2013
In the british and justice party quota law, brahmin quota in madras presidency was limited to 14%
which is much worse than the current 31%
In 1951, there was madras presidency, not yet TN, Andhra etc
There were 400 engineering seats for entire madras presidency and harder to get in than IIT today
Engineering college entrance = 3 x SD above mean = 145 IQ
SIB = 3%
FC Dravidian such as Reddy, Nair, Velala , Syrian Xtian = 27%
The other 70% such as MBC, SC, ST and muslims did not get in
In 1951, this was when SIB in Madras presidency had a higher IQ than today
This was before the exodus of SIB to Mumbai, Delhi and USA
249 out of 400 = 62% seats went to SIB and reduced to 77 seats by quota
If we set SD = 15
Engineering seat = 145 = 3 SD
FC Dravidian, 27% = 100 IQ
145 IQ = 0.1% x 27 = 2.7
SIB, 3% = 115 IQ ( same gap between Ashkenazi jew and white )
145 IQ = 2.3% x 3 = 6.9
Predicted SIB = 6.9 / ( 6.9 + 2.7 ) = 71%
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Interestingly in the USA, whenever a higher IQ minority crosses 25%, anti- quota is introduced
The Real Indian IQ - Meluhhan - 04-13-2013
[quote name='G.Subramaniam' date='11 April 2013 - 10:00 PM' timestamp='1365735167' post='116556']
In the british and justice party quota law, brahmin quota in madras presidency was limited to 14%
which is much worse than the current 31%
In 1951, there was madras presidency, not yet TN, Andhra etc
There were 400 engineering seats for entire madras presidency and harder to get in than IIT today
[/quote]
What kind of math are you doing?
14% of 400 is 56, not 77.
The Real Indian IQ - G.Subramaniam - 04-14-2013
[quote name='Meluhhan' date='13 April 2013 - 06:08 AM' timestamp='1365813015' post='116560']
What kind of math are you doing?
14% of 400 is 56, not 77.
[/quote]
I know
But for some reason or loophole, the SIB admitted was 77, despite the 14% quota
The Real Indian IQ - G.Subramaniam - 04-28-2013
2013 Spelling bee Semifinalists
Giri - SIB
Murali - SIB
Mishra - NIB
Konakalla - Telegu Kamma
Himanvi - SIB
Ramesh - SIB
Nikitha - Tamil Velala
Tarun - SIB
Khurana - Khatri
Sahijwani - Sindhi
Kamineni - Telegu Kamma
Pranav - SIB
Koganti - Telegu Kamma
Kalyanapu - Telegu Kamma
Shivshankar - Gowda
Singh - NI Rajput
Seshadri - SIB
Gurjiwan Singh - Jat Sikh
Shahani - Sindhi
Venkatachalam - SIB
Das - Bengali Kayastha
Kainthan - Tamil Velala
Devanandan - Tamil Velala
Hathwar - SIB
Ratnakumar - Tamil Velala
Chandrasekar - SIB
Arvind - SIB
Veeramani - Tamil Velala
Amritraj - Tamil Velala
Parab - Maratha
Rao - SIB
Rao - SIB
Ananthanarayanan - SIB
Srinivasan - SIB
Rahul - SIB
Reddy - Reddy
Dasari - SIB
Syamantak - NIB , Oriya
Sharma - NIB
Thadani - Sindhi
Kharkar - Kayastha, Maharashtrian CKP
Patel - Patel
Nainani - Sindhi
Shrivastava - Kayastha
Total Semifinalists = 280
Indian = 44
The Real Indian IQ - G.Subramaniam - 05-20-2013
2013 Mathcounts State finalists
Total = 232
Indians = 37
Muslims = 0
SIB = 12
NIB = 2
Kamma = 4, Again Telegu dravidians swamp all other dravidian castes
Reddy = 1
Velala = 1
Nair = 1
NI-bania = 10, again NI bania swamp NIB
Garg = NI bania
Singh = NI Rajput
Mattoo = NIB - Kashmiri Pandit
S.Gogineni = Kamma
H.Gogineni = Kamma
Krishnamurthy = SIB
Lakshmikanthan = SIB
Subramanian = SIB
Narayanan = SIB
Ramachandran = SIB
Nair = Nair
Rathore = NI Rajput
Bhattacharya = NIB - Bengali
Shahani = NI-bania Sindhi
Bhat = SIB
Patel = Patel
Ravada = SIB
Das = Kayastha, Bengali
Murali = SIB
Akash = SIB
Reddy = Reddy
Srikanth = SIB
Yash = NI bania
Sah = NI bania
Velingker = SIB
Cheepurupalli = Kamma
Choudhry = Jat
Baranwal = NI bania
Patel = Patel
Mittal = NI bania
Martheswaran = Velala
Thadani = NI bania - Sindhi
Chainani = NI bania Sindhi
Mirchandani = NI bania Sindhi
Kadaveru = Kamma
Sowmya = SIB
Sahai = NI bania
The Real Indian IQ - G.Subramaniam - 05-21-2013
10 Geo bee finalists
Neelam Sandhu - Jat Sikh
Asha Jain - Jain
Pranit Nanda - Khatri
Uppalari - SIB
Karnik - CKP Kayasth - Winner
Middela - Reddy
Palani - Velala
Rekulapalli - Kamma
The Real Indian IQ - G.Subramaniam - 05-21-2013
56 Mathcounts finalists
10 Indians
Sah - NI bania
Kadaveru - Kamma
Garg - NI bania
Reddy - Reddy
Yogeshwar - SIB
Bhattacharya - NIB bengali
Shahane - Sindhi
Mattoo - NIB Kashmiri
Saladi - Kamma
Arvind - SIB
The Real Indian IQ - ramana - 05-29-2013
Reuters reports the US spelling bee format changed.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/29/us-usa-spellingbee-idUSBRE94S0BL20130529
Quote:Young contestants in the Scripps National Spelling Bee launched two days of competition on Wednesday, facing the new challenge of not only having to spell obscure words correctly, but also knowing what they mean.
A total of 281 spellers aged 8 to 14 from across the United States and foreign countries were to take to the stage for a preliminary round on their knowledge of English words. The finals are on Thursday night.
For the first time since it began in 1927, the contest is requiring young spellers in preliminary and semifinal rounds to take a vocabulary test. Organizers say it is part of the Bee's commitment to deepening contestants' command of English.
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Looks like they hope to weed out Indian kids but are not successful....
The Real Indian IQ - G.Subramaniam - 05-30-2013
[quote name='ramana' date='29 May 2013 - 10:57 PM' timestamp='1369847949' post='116645']
Reuters reports the US spelling bee format changed.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/29/us-usa-spellingbee-idUSBRE94S0BL20130529
Looks like they hope to weed out Indian kids but are not successful....
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17 out of 42 semi-finalists are Indian, even with the new format
The Real Indian IQ - G.Subramaniam - 05-30-2013
Spelling bee semi-finalists. total = 42
Kopuri = Kamma
Dayaprema = Sinhalese
Chandran = Nair
Pranav = SIB
Vanya = Gowda
Seshadri = SIB
Shahane = Sindhi
Gokul = SIB
Devanandan = Velala
Sriram = SIB
Arvind = SIB
Veeramani = Velala
Aditya = SIB
Reddy = Reddy
Dasari = Kamma
Syamantak = NIB - Oriya
Kharkar = CKP, Maharashtrian Kayastha
The Real Indian IQ - G.Subramaniam - 05-31-2013
8 out of 11 finalists are Indian
Syamantak = NIB - Oriya
Kharkar = CKP, Maharashtrian Kayastha
Arvind = SIB
Reddy = Reddy
Sriram = SIB
Chandran = Nair
Pranav = SIB
Vanya = Gowda