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115 IQ isn’t all that high- that’s basically every Indian American or a healthy percentage of the Chinese population.

Edit: I don’t understand the downvotes. I don’t mean this in any disparaging way, just that an AGI is probably going to be a lot higher than that.



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112 was quoted as IQ score for Indian-Americans.

I read somewhere that average IQ of the Indian population is 80. With average IQ so low what do you expect.

I doubt it, less than 115 is 85% of people. Aside from the low end IQ really isn't that predictive.

The elephant in the room: average east Asian in US IQ 105, average white IQ 99, average Black IQ 85-90. You're not supposed to talk about this.

Exceptionally low ? 12% of the population is below 80 iq. 75 IQ is not exceptional, it's common.

This just isnt true about "statistical chance". The IQ distributions are very different and a huge amount of the top talent emigrates anyway. 130 iq is order 1/100 in america and more than 1/1000 in india. Population difference doesnt make up the gap.

The elephant in the room: In the US, average East Asian IQ is 105, average white IQ is 99, average black IQ is 85-95. Nobody in politics can afford to admit that.

There’s about 330,000 people in the US with an IQ above 145.

> Not surprising, since the very definition of "IQ 100" is average.

Average is not enough. If you have 10 people who have an IQ of 80 and one with an IQ of 300, that'd also average to 100. What matters here is the (roughly) gaussian distribution, too.


You can look it up yourself. I don't believe it either at one point and I did some digging and all the evidence points to a low IQ Indian population. There is of course very smart Indians but the distribution of the population as a whole is center around 82.

I'm sure its average, but the self-reported IQ might be way higher ...

I suppose it's the redefinition of average to include IQs up to "115" that I'd say was the issue then...

You dropped GP's criterion of IQ. According to worlddata.info, the average IQ in Bangladesh is 77. India is 81.

What percentage of people have a 145 IQ? That sounds really high.

Asians have higher IQ than any other ethinic group.

This explains why they do better at AI.

I don't think anyone can downplay their IQ


That the average is 100 should come as no surprise, seeing as IQ is defined so that the median score of tests on the population is 100.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient


Nitpick: IQ is based on a normal distribution with 100 as the mean. If everyone had an IQ of today's 120, then it would no longer be an IQ of 120.

At the same time India has more kids with IQ over 120 than total amount of kids in the US.

> a small group of participants recorded very high ideal IQ scores (> 1,000)

for the purposes of the survey it seems like some respondents didn't know how the IQ scale works, they probably assumed 130 is just above average.

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