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.  Forbes .  Indian-Americans, Jews (particularly Ashkenazi Jews), and northeast Asians are consistently overrepresented in U.S. samples of gifted children  The American Conservative  .  the average IQ of Indian immigrants to the US is an Ashkenazi Jewish-like 112. Going back further in time, India has a pretty stunning religious, linguistic, mathematical, and philosophical heritage. Only a continuous stream of very high IQ individuals could have both created and sustained such a heritage.  The Unz Review .  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.  The Alternative Hypothesis  http://www.arthurhu.com/index/relig.htm http://www.iqcomparisonsite.com/satiq.aspx  IQ HAS PREDICTIVE VALUE  [IQ] strong statistical predictor of multiple future life outcomes - income, education level  Forbes  INDIAN-AMERICAN DEMO HIGHEST PER CAPITA EARNERS  Median household income by ethnicity: Indian-Americans rank first at 107k followed by Jewish-Americans at 97k.  Wikipedia .  The median household income for Indian immigrants in 2015 was much higher than that of the overall foreign- and native-born populations. Households headed by Indian immigrants had a median income of $107,000,  Migration Policy .  Indian American households, for example, earn nearly twice the national average  Washington Post .  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.  Columbia Business School  INDIAN-AMERICANS MOST 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.  Columbia Business School .  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.   Forbes .  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.  Pew Research .  Indian immigrants tend to have much higher educational attainment compared to both the foreign- and native-born populations. In 2013, 76 percent of Indian immigrants (ages 25 and over) had a bachelor’s degree or higher, compared to 28 percent of all immigrants over 25 and 30 percent of native-born adults.  Migration Policy  DOMINATING STEM  [Indian-Americans] have dominated the medical, engineering and computer science industries for decades  Forbes .  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  ...AND INDIAN-AMERICANS 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   Rajeev Suri, CEO of Nokia   Ajaypal Singh Banga, CEO of MasterCard   Vinod Dham, Inventor of the Pentium Microprocessor   Ajay Bhatt, Father of USB Standard   Javed Karim, YouTube Co-founder   (accurate as of October 2017)  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.  The La Times .  Another pioneering web service, Hotmail, was 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.  The Guardian .  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.  The Scientific American .  Indian immigrants leading companies such as Adobe Systems, Nokia, Global Foundries and Mastercard  The LA Times fsdfsd