content: INDIAN-AMERICAN DEMOGRAPHIC HAS THE HIGHEST AVERAGE IQ  Indian Americans place at about 112 on a bell-shaped IQ distribution, with white Americans at 100. 112 is the 79th percentile of the white distribution. For more context, consider that Ashkenazi Jews are a famously intelligent ethnic group, and their mean IQ is somewhere around 110.  https://www.forbes.com/2009/02/24/bobby-jindal-indian-americans-opinions-contributors_immigrants_minority.html --  Indian-Americans, Jews (particularly Ashkenazi Jews), and northeast Asians are consistently overrepresented in U.S. samples of gifted children  http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/how-america-turned-against-smart-kids/ ^Paper founded by the notoriously anti-immigration Pat Buchanan^ --  Indian SAT test takers an average score of 1029, which translates to an IQ of 110.84 compared to a white SAT of 934 which translates to an IQ of 103.96.  http://thealternativehypothesis.org/index.php/2016/04/15/iqs-of-indians/  ^Alt-right blog^ http://www.arthurhu.com/index/relig.htm http://www.iqcomparisonsite.com/satiq.aspx   [IQ] strong statistical predictor of multiple future life outcomes - income, education level  https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2015/09/16/is-iq-a-predictor-of-success/#380f33693604  INDIAN-AMERICAN DEMO HIGHEST PER CAPITA EARNERS  Median household income by ethnicity: Indian-Americans rank first at 107k followed by Jewish-Americans at 97k.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_United_States_by_household_income --  Indian American households, for example, earn nearly twice the national average  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/12/20/why-asian-americans-arent-as-rich-as-they-seem/?utm_term=.6f0206eabe1e --  But the most striking distinction may be their economic status: Indian-American households have the single highest income level of any group in the country — more than twice as high as the general US population.  https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/articles/chazen-global-insights/singular-population-indian-immigrants-america  INDIAN-AMERICANS HIGHEST EDUCATED DEMOGRAPHIC  [Indian-Americans] are by far the best educated group in the country — roughly three times more India-born residents have college degrees than the general population.  https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/articles/chazen-global-insights/singular-population-indian-immigrants-america --  Since American immigration laws were liberalized in 1965, Indians traveled to the U.S. in record numbers and the Indian American community has become the wealthiest, most educated diaspora in the country.   https://www.forbes.com/sites/ronakdesai/2017/01/16/indian-americans-are-achieving-unprecedented-success-in-public-service/#218af1bc3da4 --  Indian Americans are among the most highly educated racial or ethnic groups in the U.S. 70% of Indian Americans aged 25 and older had college degrees in 2010, by far the highest rate among the six Asian-American groups studied and 2.5 times the rate among the overall U.S. population.  http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/09/30/5-facts-about-indian-americans/  DOMINATING STEM  [Indian-Americans] have dominated the medical, engineering and computer science industries for decades   https://www.forbes.com/sites/ronakdesai/2017/01/16/indian-americans-are-achieving-unprecedented-success-in-public-service/#218af1bc3da4 --  Physicians born anytime in the 1930s - 1950s are more likely to have the surname Smith, but starting in the 1960s the U.S. saw an uptick in diversity, and in both the 1970s and 1980s, Patel topped this list as the most common last name among all physicians. Patel is now officially the last name most frequently preceded by “Dr.”  https://blog.doximity.com/articles/this-is-now-the-most-popular-last-name-in-medicine -- MEANWHILE IN THE UK  Khan is now the most common surname for doctors in Britain. It is followed by Patel, also from the Indian sub-continent, ahead of the plain English names Smith and Jones. Ahmed is in sixth place and Ali is ninth.  https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/most-common-last-name-for-doctors-is-khan-ht5pghjdsdf AND SINCE WE'RE HERE, LET'S SAIL TO IRELAND WHERE A GAY INDIAN IS PRIME MINISTER  ...AND THE INDIANS ARE TAKING SILICON VALLEY AND THE TECH SECTOR BY STORM   Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google   Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft   Shantanu Narayen, CEO of Adobe Systems   Ajaypal Singh Banga, CEO of MasterCard   Vinod Dham, Inventor of the Pentium Microprocessor   Ajay Bhatt, Father of USB Standard   --  A joint Duke University – UC Berkeley study revealed that Indian immigrants have founded more engineering and technology companies from 1995 to 2005 than immigrants from the UK, China, Taiwan and Japan combined.  http://www.indolink.com/displayArticleS.php?id=010307105012 --  There are 89,000 Indians living in Silicon Valley, according to the Migration Policy Institute, with most of the families involved in the tech industry. Another 86,000 Indians live in San Francisco and Oakland. by 2012, nearly 16% of start-ups in Silicon Valley had an Indian co-founder even though Indians represented just 6% of the region's population. The figure for Indian start-ups is even higher in some areas, such as business software.  http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-indians-in-tech-20150812-story,amp.html --  Almost all the big US technology companies have technology pioneers of Indian descent, including the fathers of the USB and technology blogging One of the most unsung technology pioneers is Ajay Bhatt, an Indian-American computer architect who is credited as being the father of the USB standard – something that almost every computing device uses today in some form or another. Intel was not short of talented Indians. The father of the famous Intel Pentium processor, Vinod Dham, originally hailed from Pune in India. One of Nadella’s (Indian-American CEO of Microsoft) suggested rivals for the job of Microsoft’s chief executive was Sundar Pichai, currently the man overseeing Android, Chrome and apps at Google. Another pioneering web service, Hotmail, was   7ffa  founded by an Indian technology talent who emigrated to the US in the 1980s. Vic Gundotra, who is known as Google’s social tsar and the man behind the Google+ social network. Born in 1982 in Pune, India, Ruchi Sanghvi became Facebook’s first female engineer, joining the social network in 2005. [Padmasree] Warrior became a senior vice president and Motorola’s chief technology officer, before being promoted to executive vice president in 2005. Under her tenure, Motorola won the National Medal of Technology from the President of the United States for the first time in 2004. Shantanu Narayen, born in 1963 in Hyderabad, India, currently serves as Adobe Systems chief executive; a software and services company the develops the world famous Photoshop among other products.  https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/11/powerful-indians-silicon-valley --  After a six-months-long search, Microsoft has handed responsibility for its future to Satya Nadella, who replaces Steve Ballmer and becomes only the third chief executive in the company's nearly four-decade-long history.  https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/microsoft-names-satya-nadella-new-ceo/ --  Indian immigrants leading companies such as Adobe Systems, Nokia, Global Foundries and Mastercard  http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-indians-in-tech-20150812-story.html OTHER COOL TIDBITS  Considered the "father of tubular designs" for high-rises, [Fazlur] Khan was also a pioneer in computer-aided design (CAD). He was the designer of the Sears Tower, since renamed Willis Tower, the tallest building in the world from 1973 until 1998, and the 100-story John Hancock Center.  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fazlur_Rahman_Khan  [Javed Karim] is an Internet entrepreneur, who co-founded YouTube and was the first person to upload a video on it. The video he released was named 'Me at the zoo' and as of July 2017 has reached over 40 million views. Many of the core components of PayPal, including its real-time anti-internet fraud system, were also designed and implemented by Karim.  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawed_Karim .....................................