EDIT: wrote a lot on IQ here but a new member called Soka Norman (don't know who that is) brought it to my attention that the Wikipedia link I gave, which I mainly used for the normal distribution graph on Asian IQ, contained text stating that:
- avg IQ of Indians is around 80
- avg IQ of eastern Asians (Chinese and Japanese) is in the 107 or 110, I think.
I had initially written that I had read (in a Chinese forum where the medium was English) that Chinese and Indian IQs were around 110, possibly +1 for Chinese.
But since I cannot find that site again to prove what I stated, and since I have instead only found many sites repeating that the avg IQ of Indians is around 80 (similar to Africa and perhaps other Asian countries outside of Eastern Asia), I have removed what I wrote here. Sorry to have bothered anyone into reading it. Undo, undo, undo.
[The sd that I had initially given, of +-5 was wholly an invention - but I had indicated that already in the old version of this post]
I'll still be looking around for the Chinese thread. If I find it, I will put my old post back up here.
Meanwhile, here is one sample of the opposing results that I did find, about the Indian avg IQ of 80 and China's 110. (The other pages I found all discuss <i>race</i> and IQ which is not what I wanted.)
This means that during the next few generations India should focus on trying to get to an average of 100 since it would be useful for competing at the international level.
Also, at this site there is a small mention of Indians in Britain briefly comparing them to Pakistani and Bangla immigrants there. (The discussion following that however, quickly degenerates into race-related stuff.) The article does indicate that IQs can increase with exposure to the kind of education whose influences can be measured with IQ tests.
- avg IQ of Indians is around 80
- avg IQ of eastern Asians (Chinese and Japanese) is in the 107 or 110, I think.
I had initially written that I had read (in a Chinese forum where the medium was English) that Chinese and Indian IQs were around 110, possibly +1 for Chinese.
But since I cannot find that site again to prove what I stated, and since I have instead only found many sites repeating that the avg IQ of Indians is around 80 (similar to Africa and perhaps other Asian countries outside of Eastern Asia), I have removed what I wrote here. Sorry to have bothered anyone into reading it. Undo, undo, undo.
[The sd that I had initially given, of +-5 was wholly an invention - but I had indicated that already in the old version of this post]
I'll still be looking around for the Chinese thread. If I find it, I will put my old post back up here.
Meanwhile, here is one sample of the opposing results that I did find, about the Indian avg IQ of 80 and China's 110. (The other pages I found all discuss <i>race</i> and IQ which is not what I wanted.)
This means that during the next few generations India should focus on trying to get to an average of 100 since it would be useful for competing at the international level.
Also, at this site there is a small mention of Indians in Britain briefly comparing them to Pakistani and Bangla immigrants there. (The discussion following that however, quickly degenerates into race-related stuff.) The article does indicate that IQs can increase with exposure to the kind of education whose influences can be measured with IQ tests.