Actually, the "study" is not study but a book. It was never peer reviewed but published for general consumption. So it had not much standing in the first place.
It does not matter for my point anyways, I used the word study because you used it here (same context) :
But since you highlighted this anyways, here are my two cents - peer review is a sensitive subject in postmodern political correct science especially things about race. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievance_studies_affair also important to read
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis#In_psychology. Psychology/Sociology/Anthropology and other humanities are not exact sciences and there will always be a possibility of dispute in them. When surrounding concepts like race, there is a word of caution exercised in academia. Anyways, I didn't vouch for Lynn to be completely correct but I am against the idea of discarding any discussion around it as political incorrectness when there is mounting evidence on the other side.
There has been only one single PISA participation from India. In 2009. That too in two states. Himachal and Tamil Nadu. India has participated in TIMSS in 2003 IIRC. Ofcourse, in both these tests, Indian students underperformed. Now comparing this Pakistan's students, I do not know what will be the outcome. Pakistan has only participated in TIMSS in 2019 IIRC. It got a score of 328 for grade 4. India's score for 2003 were 397. Both were below the benchmark of 400.
Simply put, enough data to compare average IQ in India or Pakistan is not there.
First Note: My comment did not mentioned any supposed superiority of Pakistanis, as a matter of fact I said:
Regarding Pakistan's underachievements, it could be due to highly religious culture rather than an inadequacy in IQ compared to India.
Which means I acknowledged that Pakistan is a laggard even when compared to India, I don't if you wilfully ignored this or not but since this clear, I will not address any Pakistan related points further. Also, you did not gave any interpretation regarding the abysmal performance other than a comparison with Pakistan so I will leave this point here.
Actually, on that front India has done much much better than Pakistan and in general as well (
https://www.imo-official.org/year_country_r.aspx?year=2021). For instance India has ranked above likes of Denmark, France, Sweden... putting a hole in the entire IQ argument... atleast at the very top level.
IMO:
Pakistan (since 2005) : 7 Bronze and 1 Silver
India (in 2021 and 2020 alone): 2 Golds, 5 Silvers and 3 bronze)
International Mathematical Olympiad International Mathematical Olympiad
Internation physics olympiad (IPO : https://ipho-unofficial.org/timeline/2017/country)
India ranked 5th. 4 gold 1 silver.
Pakistan : 0 medals
I am discounting 2019, 2018 and 2021 ones because in each year either Pakistan was missing or India.
Feel free to go in the history as well.
International Chemistry Olympiad:
www.icho-official.org
India : 2 Gold 2 Silver
Pakistan : 0 medals
Again you can look at history too. India has performed much above Pakistan.
Thanks for the data actually.
Actually, on that front India has done much much better than Pakistan and in general as well (
https://www.imo-official.org/year_country_r.aspx?year=2021). For instance India has ranked above likes of Denmark, France, Sweden... putting a hole in the entire IQ argument... atleast at the very top level.
This is incorrect to say the least. Except France, the listed nations have much much smaller population than India. If you how bell-curve works, then a higher population gives you larger curve hence you can go into extreme tails of the curve more easily - to explain more easily top 0.00003% of Denmark is actually 1.74 persons - there does not exist any Danish person with 4 to 5 standard deviation above Danish mean and for India that is nearly 400 individuals - larger population have a drastic advantage, not to mention that real life IQ works as a fat-tailed distribution hence magnifying this effect. Thus, If India's average would be equivalent to Denmark or say France it should at the top with China and not being there is underperformance. Also, I don't understand what you mean by "atleast at the very top level." - I am talking about averages here as hinted in the comment :
this explains the rigid social structures, lack of social discipline and superstitious societies.
Calculations referred above:
Percentage of people between 4th and 5th SD:
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=1/2(1+erf(5/sqrt(2)))-1/2(1+erf(4/sqrt(2)))
Denmark's population between 4th and 5th SD .0000003*5800000 = 1.74 ~ 2
India's population between 4th and 5th SD .0000003*1300000000 = 390 ~ 400
Feel free to point any errors in calculations (done hastily) but I feel any errors should not change the main argument.
IMO:
Pakistan (since 2005) : 7 Bronze and 1 Silver
India (in 2021 and 2020 alone): 2 Golds, 5 Silvers and 3 bronze)
International Mathematical Olympiad International Mathematical Olympiad
Internation physics olympiad (IPO : https://ipho-unofficial.org/timeline/2017/country)
India ranked 5th. 4 gold 1 silver.
Pakistan : 0 medals
I am discounting 2019, 2018 and 2021 ones because in each year either Pakistan was missing or India.
Feel free to go in the history as well.
International Chemistry Olympiad:
www.icho-official.org
India : 2 Gold 2 Silver
Pakistan : 0 medals
Again you can look at history too. India has performed much above Pakistan.
While IPO and IChO record of India is great, India sucks at IMO. Advanced mathematics is the most g-factor loaded filed in exact sciences (actually is the only exact science but that's besides the point) and it is impossible to compensate the lack of raw talent with hard work - anecdotal examples - Terence Tao, Von Neumann etc also there was a study regarding this but can not find it now. This strengthens my point - For IMO, India doesn't lack infrastructure as otherwise IPO and IChO records should be worse, the lacking part is something India as a nation can not control - g-factor of average population. Another case in point is the Indian Americans and their participation in American IMO team as opposed East Asian Americans, despite Indians outperforming Chinese in earnings, not many Indians have participated in IMO - a phenomenon explained by the above hypothesis.
Still I would not call this as my final beliefs, I was just elaborating that regardless of Richard Lynn, there are unexplained cues that points to the same general direction.