A few thoughts on this video about high J IQ by @UBERSOY1 Now I agree with the main thesis that J IQ is around 110, but I would say that the main disagreement between me and the authors is I view nepotism as more important for J success than they do.
Looking at the Nobel prize, we see that Jews became more overrepresented after ww2, and this was mostly due to shared prizes with gentiles. nanopdf.com/download/the-j…
It is possible this could be due to a decrease in anti-semitism, but we know that Jews are more likely to cite Jewish academics, this could be due to bias from J or G but given relative rates of ethnocentrism in the 1990s it more likely due J in group bias faculty.washington.edu/agg/pdf/Gwald&…
Another line of evidence used to discount nepotism is the success of of Jews in mental games like chess or bridge etc. First of all nepotism could play a role in these areas if group members work to promote the sport among the in-group and provide training to the in-group.
South Asians made up 21 of the 23 past spelling bee champions, does that mean that as long as Indians are less than 91% of an institution we are to assume that nepotism played no role in their success? theconversation.com/how-indian-ame…
We also see Nigerians being successful in Scrabble even though they have a low average IQ, now the govt pays the players so this is a sort of nepotism that helps Nigerians in Scrabble. qz.com/africa/1744913…
Concentration in cities is an important contributor to Jewish success. This paper makes an important contribution to this issue by comparing J to college educated G living in cities. Jews are more likely to have individual and family incomes over 110k bjpa.org/content/upload…
This old Ideas and Data article seems to disagree on the claims about Jews and personality, and personality and sucess IDK if Sean still stands by this analysis, or which analysis is painting a more complete picture. web.archive.org/web/2019060117…
But I would dispute the claim that Jews are particularly altruistic. This analysis from the inductivist found the only statistically significant differences in altruism favored gentiles. inductivist.blogspot.com/2009/12/jews-a…
This analysis shows that Jews do give more money to charity, but given income differences it is questionable if they gave more as a percentage of their income: theconversation.com/american-jews-…
It was difficult to find average income by religion if we assume that unspecified protestant to be representative of protestants as whole (which honestly no clue) than Jews are slightly less altruistic than P but more than C. (Though my analysis has a lot of assumptions)
Also seemingly despite their higher IQ, Jews are overrepresented in Federal prison. fivethirtyeight.com/features/are-p…
This analysis says they are 1.7% of total prisoners, so seemingly not far off there either: alephne.org/templates/sect…
The authors do touch on nepotism, I think Sean gives a more thorough take on this and the possible role it might play in J success here: Another thing about the intermarriage point is that you marry out and still be fiercely ethnocentric look at Ye. ideasanddata.wordpress.com/2020/05/17/jew…
Another interesting paper: most immigrant groups made less the more foreign their names were but Russians (mostly Jewish) made more, the less assimilated they were. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…
The paper states: "The literature on the
Eastern European Jewish immigrant experience attributes advantages to displaying a
strong ethnic identity. Scholars have described
the important role of ethnic aid societies in
Jews’ economic success"
In general it is not unusual to see extreme overrepresentation in certain industries due to ethnic networking like Indians and motels, Vietnamese and nails Cambodians and donuts. Given that J are smarter than average could they replicate this mainstream media and academia?
Another interesting factor not discusses in this video to possibly explain Jewish genius is psychopathology: kirkegaard.substack.com/p/a-theory-of-…
Open to criticism on any of these points. This was just a cursory look at some of this data so I may have interpreted it wrong. Please be respectful if you engage with the authors in the comments, "Ur a Jew" is not an argument.
People who may be interested @AmericanKrogan @BronskiJoseph
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