1. Important to note that *despite* elite selection, Brahmins are still at the top, while Shudras are at the bottom, as per stereotypes and common sense.
Major counter to more recent claims that Brahmins don't stand out in IQ.
2. Noticing that Kerala is elite, as usual. (45% literacy in 1941).
PS. Just noticed the study is from Agra and Oudh (that's Uttar Pradesh). Brahmin IQ advantage is vastly smaller to non-existent in that region. So the fact that a minor advantage was found, despite this and being confounded by elite selection, says a lot.
Since the study hasn't really been cited by anyone else, he must have found it himself. Someone called M Miles cited it around 1996-1998 twice. But not relevant to Lynn's work too much.
This one may be interesting. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2005-14698-004 This 1935 study confirms the use of the mastery learning system, since grades and ages are not nearly perfectly linked as in the modern West. It's quite the study, even though it's strongly environmentalist in theory, it includes a small worldwide national IQ list based on the draw-a-man test. Indians were 71, close to modern values, but Italians were at 88, below Armenians at 92. Jews were 106.
There has been more admixture between castes in northern India than in southern India, so presumably the caste differences in southern India are even greater than what we see here in this northern Indian sample.
The questions in the first are like "which numbers are only in the triangle." After that is pattern recognition, starting with the example of odd numbers. Seems pretty easy for 11yos.
1. Important to note that *despite* elite selection, Brahmins are still at the top, while Shudras are at the bottom, as per stereotypes and common sense.
Major counter to more recent claims that Brahmins don't stand out in IQ.
2. Noticing that Kerala is elite, as usual. (45% literacy in 1941).
PS. Just noticed the study is from Agra and Oudh (that's Uttar Pradesh). Brahmin IQ advantage is vastly smaller to non-existent in that region. So the fact that a minor advantage was found, despite this and being confounded by elite selection, says a lot.
Yes, I forgot to point out the limited geographical sampling.
Great find! Too bad we don’t have a funding mechanism to fund even the low-hanging fruits of HBD studies across the globe.
The part about mastery system shocked me. In 1941, in India no less. Sound too good to be true.
So I asked GPT-5 it says almost no part of India had that except some very small localized eduction systems.
I wonder where Lynn got it from?
Since the study hasn't really been cited by anyone else, he must have found it himself. Someone called M Miles cited it around 1996-1998 twice. But not relevant to Lynn's work too much.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=8692561500058164240&as_sdt=2005&sciodt=0,5&hl=en
I mean, you can see what he might have searched for. He might have found something like this one. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jhbs.21692 But sadly, this review ends in 1940 and thus excludes Lall's work.
This one may be interesting. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2005-14698-004 This 1935 study confirms the use of the mastery learning system, since grades and ages are not nearly perfectly linked as in the modern West. It's quite the study, even though it's strongly environmentalist in theory, it includes a small worldwide national IQ list based on the draw-a-man test. Indians were 71, close to modern values, but Italians were at 88, below Armenians at 92. Jews were 106.
There has been more admixture between castes in northern India than in southern India, so presumably the caste differences in southern India are even greater than what we see here in this northern Indian sample.
You can't give us homework. It's Sunday!
The questions in the first are like "which numbers are only in the triangle." After that is pattern recognition, starting with the example of odd numbers. Seems pretty easy for 11yos.
Well, with 80 years of Flynn effect, yes, maybe.