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tockyesterday at 1:25 PM2 repliesview on HN

> potentially more intelligent than the poorest group

It's easy to think this but its not true. There is just a ton of privilege involved in life. There are groups in India who purely tutor slum kids to the top IITs(the JEE exams in India are very hard).

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_30


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Noumenon72yesterday at 3:23 PM

They said "on average". Selecting 30 of the most talented from the poorest group does not contradict that.

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groundzeros2015yesterday at 3:21 PM

Sorry I’m not familiar with Indian culture and power structures.