Asian Americans
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Chinese' success is an example: http://www.amazon.com/Asian-Americans-Achievement-Beyond-Iq/... Note that Flynn (yes, that one) is no racist.
Read on Hacker News…mmigrants, whatever their IQ scores, do more to realize their potential than people with "fixed mindset." Indeed, there is a whole book on this subject, James R. Flynn's Asian Americans: Achievement Beyond IQ. http://www.amazon.com/Asian-Americans-Achievement-Beyond-Iq/... The IQ threshold for eminent achievement and even "genius" (as carefully defined by psychologists) is not particularly high, but is only about 120 on a currently normed IQ test. That, by definition of IQ standard scoring, is less than two standard deviations above the population mean. Follow-up comments to this by request.
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