MAGA influencer Andrew Branca stirred a row on X with a series of posts about the academic performance and intelligence of people from India and other countries.Branca first targeted third-world countries, claiming they were responsible for all the crime. “These third-world monsters raped hundreds upon hundreds of girls, many of them children, all across Britain, on organized rape-gangs,” he said, replying to a post by Matt Welsh who slandered extreme poverty and low infrastructure in Somalia.Branca then turned his attention to Indians, arguing that their high SAT scores were not genuine and that they likely cheated on their exams. “The Indians cheat on the SAT, that’s why,” he said.He also made claims about the intelligence statistics of Indians, saying that it is no big deal for a few great minds to come from a population so vast. He said: “There are 1.5 billion people in India, average IQ ~75, and statistically only 0.005% of them would be expected to have an IQ of 140 or greater.”He then compared the same numbers to European countries, saying that despite having smaller populations, European nations produce far more people with high intelligence than India. He said, “That means Indians are 1/100th as likely to have a genius-level IQ as someone of Western European white ancestry. Alternatively, a Westerner is 100 times more likely to be a genius than is an Indian.”Sarcastically, he added that “certainly we must import many millions of these ‘genius’ Indians.”Branca’s comments were made in response to another X post claiming Indians rank second in SAT scores by ethnicity, just after Koreans.
What are SAT exams?
The SAT (Scholastic Assessment Test) is a test used for college admissions in the US, and students from around the world, majorly from India, take it to apply to American universities. It assesses skills in reading, writing, and mathematics, along with problem-solving and analytical thinking. However, the College Board, which administers the SAT, does not release scores by nationality, so there is no official data on how Indian students perform compared to others.
