Their IQs are, unfortunately, higher than those of whites however... >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*](https://archive.is/sm5x) . >Indian-Americans, Jews (particularly Ashkenazi Jews), and northeast Asians are consistently overrepresented in U.S. samples of gifted children [*The American Conservative*](https://archive.is/q9C6W) . >The IQ of Indian immigrants is also high, which suggests that the United States enjoys positive selection from that part of the world (p.57) - Full Scale Mean IQ Estimate for Indian-Americans: 111.9 (p.56) [*IQ and Immigration Policy*, Harvard dissertation presented to The Department of Public Policy ](https://archive.is/bGwox) . >the average IQ of Indian immigrants to the US is an Ashkenazi Jewish-like 112. [*The Unz Review*](https://archive.is/J2ExP) . >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*](https://archive.is/i5FE4) [*Arthur Hu's Index of Diversity*](https://archive.is/ea5FX) [SAT I to IQ Estimator](https://archive.is/L9IaR) ------------------------- **IQ CORRELATED TO INCOME, EDUCATION, OCCUPATION** >[IQ is an] explanation for differences in achievement or success... predictor of future success as in school, training and occupational selection [*National Center for Biotechnology Information*](https://archive.is/25OWe) . >[IQ] strong statistical predictor of multiple future life outcomes - income, education level [*Forbes*](https://archive.is/GSjA9) ------------------------- **HIGHEST AVERAGE INCOME, 2X AVG** - Median household income by ethnicity: Indian-Americans rank first at 107k followed by Jewish-Americans at 97k. [*Wikipedia*](https://archive.is/Wn9Hi) . >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*](https://archive.is/ss3z3) . >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*](https://archive.is/AwbMv) ------------------------- **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*](https://archive.is/AwbMv) . >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*](https://archive.is/5MOjV) . >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*](https://archive.is/8BLC8) [[1](https://archive.is/iUd3E)] . >most educated diaspora in the country. [*Forbes*](https://archive.is/HUYBQ) > Indians are often excluded from affirmative action. Asians are overrepresented at many colleges, despite many being rejected in favor of blacks and Hispanics. American politicians and courts have extended the “benefits” of reverse racism to South Asians, just as they have to whites. [American Renaissance]( https://archive.is/34foy) ------------------------- **OVER-REPRESENTED IN MEDICINE** >Indians, whether native or foreign born, had a much higher rate of physicians per 100,000 persons in the work force than any other ethnic group. Overall, their rate was an astounding 5,793 per 100,000 Indians in the work force (i.e., almost 6 percent of Indian workers in the United States are doctors). Only "other Asians," with 3,036 per 100,000 adults, were remotely close. - Second highest demographic of American doctors after non-Hispanic whites. [*Center for Immigration Studies*](https://archive.is/joJbx) . >Despite constituting less than 1% of the U.S. population, Indian-Americans are... 8% of its physicians and surgeons. [*Forbes*](https://archive.is/sm5x) . >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.” [*Doximity*](https://archive.is/XBdPo) **AND OTHER HIGH IQ OCCUPATIONS** >Despite constituting less than 1% of the U.S. population, Indian-Americans are 3% of the nation's engineers, 7% of its IT workers [*Forbes*](https://archive.is/sm5x) . >[Indian-Americans] have dominated the medical, engineering and computer science industries for decades [*Forbes*](https://archive.is/HUYBQ)