06-01-2009, 12:11 AM
Brihaspati,
the demand for Affirmative Action and the demand to extend Affirmative Action to rich members of OBC castes and the demand not to extend Affirmative Action to poor members of forward castes for a period of 60 years kind of denotes
that rich OBC castes cannot compete with poor forward castes
You can also note that in academic contests in the US diaspora, certain castes are over-represented and certain castes are absent among the winners and finalists
This points to a sizable genetic component for IQ
Always there is a bell curve and this means that some OBC castes will have higher IQ than some forward castes
During the Mandal controversy, I remember reading of a large scale IQ test
in IQ which showed Dalits at 75, OBC at 88 and Forward castes at 102
I believe this studied the pre-quota performance
I also believe that among the OBC castes, some, especially the viswha karma castes, given education, will match the forward castes academically
I also believe that a certain amount of quota is actually beneficial for forward castes, since it forces by darwinian selection, the improvement of IQ among the forward castes
Sort of how a predator improves the fitness of the prey species by removing the weak from the gene pool
the demand for Affirmative Action and the demand to extend Affirmative Action to rich members of OBC castes and the demand not to extend Affirmative Action to poor members of forward castes for a period of 60 years kind of denotes
that rich OBC castes cannot compete with poor forward castes
You can also note that in academic contests in the US diaspora, certain castes are over-represented and certain castes are absent among the winners and finalists
This points to a sizable genetic component for IQ
Always there is a bell curve and this means that some OBC castes will have higher IQ than some forward castes
During the Mandal controversy, I remember reading of a large scale IQ test
in IQ which showed Dalits at 75, OBC at 88 and Forward castes at 102
I believe this studied the pre-quota performance
I also believe that among the OBC castes, some, especially the viswha karma castes, given education, will match the forward castes academically
I also believe that a certain amount of quota is actually beneficial for forward castes, since it forces by darwinian selection, the improvement of IQ among the forward castes
Sort of how a predator improves the fitness of the prey species by removing the weak from the gene pool