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		akhilcacharya on Sept 22, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not > Some countries have higher IQ populations than others. Are you saying I'm inherently inferior due to the country my parents were born in?

haihaibye on Sept 23, 2019 [–]

No, these things work in distributions.

It's perfectly possible for very smart people to come from very low average IQ populations, it's just less likely than from higher average IQ ones.

Many countries also have very high IQ subpopulations eg India, Nigeria and Iran off the top of my head.

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