The Real Indian IQ

[G.Subramaniam]

<!--QuoteBegin-Bharath+Nov 11 2009, 09:01 AM-->QUOTE(Bharath @ Nov 11 2009, 09:01 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->See the paper by Dr. Anjini Kochar of Stanford University (Stanford Center for International Development) :
    "Affirmative Action through Quotas: The Effect on Higher Education In India

  Paper is available in http://scid.stanford.edu/system/files/shar...ini_K_paper.pdf

It has been presented in the annual India conference of SCID:
      http://scid.stanford.edu/node/232


  I feel the research more or less concludes that the Affirmative Action through Quotas has not been effective. 

  Any comments ?
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Since IQ is 82% genetic, ( once malnutrition is removed )
Affirmative action is never the ideal solution

But it is a political solution

Think of it as one more tax and re-distribution to meet the public peace

Poverty levels are 40% for ST, 30% for SC and 20% for OBC vs just 10% for FC

As long as the FC is unwilling to breed, quotas for the creamy layer for the quota castes is a way to keep public unrest below a threshold

It is not class, but caste that rules India
So as long as a handful of ST elite get quota, the bulk of the ST feel satisfied that their kind is also sharing at the trough

Similar to how UP Dalits support Mayavati despite her excesses