Original sentence: One possible explanation for the success of Americans of East Asian descent stems from the observation that the average score of East Asians on a variety of IQ tests is greater than the average IQ score of whites in the US (see race and intelligence)
Edited sentence: As large numbers of people were puzzled by the success rate of Asian Americans, compared to other racial minorities in the United States, some people began to conceive that Asian Americans were succeeding because Asians genetically more intelligent.Furthermore, Asians are often found to be good at understanding, analyzing and remembering or applying patterns.In any case, Asian Americans have become known as working hard, intelligent and successful.Indeed, the average IQ of Asians is often found to be one standard deviation about the IQ of the general population.These findings are disputed