The Real Indian IQ

[G.Subramaniam]

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Acharya- You must ask GS for the Math Olympiad Stats -- I do not know. I think GS's estimates of IQs for Indians are believable in the ball-park range. So there should be Indians in the Math olympiad range IQ. But I think beyond a certain threshold training in solving problems might be of greater importance than raw IQ. You can have a high IQ and yet not know integral log(x)dx for example.
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In the US, several Indians have represented the US in the Math olympiad
In the 2007 and 2008 teams

In India, the support structure for the math olympiad is absent
There is a math professor in Pune who is doing this on his own running coaching classes

What happens in India is this
The math olympiad competes with board exam, JEE etc
and compared to board exam and JEE , math olympiad is low on the list of priorities

In china for example, the math olympiad contestants are guaranteed fall back seats in professional colleges, so they can focus full time on math olympiad