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>Most Indians cannot think beyond money, sex, and survival — just what you would expect of a society with an average IQ of 77.

A tad racist here? Contrast with how they do in the US: https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/11h2fc0/median_...

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unless the US selects people at random to immigrate that chart is irrelevant

Well, it suggests they are not all dumb. Also having been to India I'd say they are fairly normal in inherent IQ, but quite a lot of people are illiterate and would have a job confronted with an IQ test.

Is it really true that the average IQ in India is 77?

No. There is essentially no credible research anywhere that ranks countries like this. People are usually citing Richard Lynn's "IQ and the Wealth Of Nations", which has a risible methodology; that paper gives India an 82, not a 77, which is interesting only to the extent that it muddies the waters of where this author got that absurd claim from.

Any time you see a country => IQ mapping somewhere, you should assume you're getting worked. Lynn's work is the most credible attempt at that, and nobody even a little bit serious takes it even a little bit seriously.

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