Are Nigerians The Smartest People On Earth?

I came across this and decide to share with you all:

"I don't know if Nigerians are the smartest people on earth but they sure are smart, Igbo folk in particular. To give an example; back in 1981, I was hiring staff in Warri. A young (17) Igbo fellow called Sam asked for a job. He was as short as me and very slim so not suitable for laboring work. He was totally full of beans so I hired him anyways to help me with line testing gear. Sam had had just four years of primary education. About a week in he asked me why I liked the small numbers on the test gear and did not like the big ones. So sitting there under a mangrove I explained voltage, current, Ohms law and the problem with contaminated connections. About an hour later Sam comes back with a drawing and a handful of batteries. He wanted to know whether there was a way to put the batteries in the geophones so as to push the signal through even with poor connections. I was gobsmacked. An hour after hearing of Ohm's law for the first time he'd dreamt up the concept of a pre-amplifier. I had an electronics workshop so I took Sam into it and started with the math and electronics. He lived in that lab.  He went from Euclid to Leibniz in less than a month. Six weeks in he was using spectrum analyzers to control inter-modulation between multiple radio transmitters. In the eleven months, we worked/learned together Sam got to about associate degree level. He set up an electronics store after." - Pat

Are you convinced that Nigerians are the smartest people on the surface of the earth?

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