05-10-2008, 07:12 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-Bharatvarsh+May 9 2008, 07:37 PM-->QUOTE(Bharatvarsh @ May 9 2008, 07:37 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->G.Sub while these assumptions may be correct, they cannot compensate for hard data, there seem to be very few IQ tests conducted in India, and even the ones conducted have been confined to certain areas.
Also correct me if I am wrong, the 13 or so IQ tests which Steve Sailer uses in his article on Indians were conducted between 1940s and 1980s when India was much more poorer and illiterate, so I suspect that there may have been a slight increase in the current IQ with an improving diet and economy (thanks to abandoning socialism of Nehru).
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Even in Gujarat, there is severe malnutrition
These tests were done in places like Orissa and it may take several decades more for the improvement in diet and literacy to kick in
Sailers latest IQ shows 82 for India instead of 81
Also correct me if I am wrong, the 13 or so IQ tests which Steve Sailer uses in his article on Indians were conducted between 1940s and 1980s when India was much more poorer and illiterate, so I suspect that there may have been a slight increase in the current IQ with an improving diet and economy (thanks to abandoning socialism of Nehru).
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Even in Gujarat, there is severe malnutrition
These tests were done in places like Orissa and it may take several decades more for the improvement in diet and literacy to kick in
Sailers latest IQ shows 82 for India instead of 81