aei.org/articles/the-2…
Extravagant success of Ashkenazi #Jews in wide range of intellectual domains serves as solid refutation to already exhausted #woke narrative of oppression, victimhood, & intersectionality. Why?/1
#IQ #psychology #intelligenceresearch #groupdifferences
Extravagant success of Ashkenazi #Jews in wide range of intellectual domains serves as solid refutation to already exhausted #woke narrative of oppression, victimhood, & intersectionality. Why?/1
#IQ #psychology #intelligenceresearch #groupdifferences
"In the first half of the 20th century, despite pervasive and continuing social discrimination against Jews throughout the Western world, despite the retraction of legal rights, and despite the Holocaust, Jews won 14 % of Nobel Prizes in literature, chemistry, physics..."/2
"..., and medicine/physiology. In the second half of the 20th century, when Nobel Prizes began to be awarded to people from all over the world, that figure rose to 29 %. So far, in the 21st century, it has been 32 %. Jews constitute ~0.2 % of the world’s population."/3
"Ashkenazi Jews are just as successful as their tested IQ would predict, and they are hugely overrepresented in occupations and fields with the highest cognitive demands.”/4
Ashkenazi Jews w/ IQ over 145 outnumber the rest of whites ~11:1 per population numbers.
Ashkenazi Jews w/ IQ over 145 outnumber the rest of whites ~11:1 per population numbers.
"On the extremes of exceptional intelligence, from which Nobel laureate scientists & chess champions emerge, Jewish representation is much higher. Indeed, as the models predict, Jews are present in ever-greater disproportion the further one looks in the rarified IQs above 150."/5
"1954 IQ test in New York City’s public schools used to discover the 28 students in the school system with IQs over 170. Twenty-four of these students were Jews."/6
One year high-school freshmen in in the SMPY who had tested in the top 99,99th percentile (math): ~50 % were Jews.
One year high-school freshmen in in the SMPY who had tested in the top 99,99th percentile (math): ~50 % were Jews.
"The vast majority of Jewish households, both in the United States and in Israel, are secular and not especially different from those of their gentile neighbors in similar socio-economic conditions."/7
Genius level IQ is never a result of environmental push: genes set potential.
Genius level IQ is never a result of environmental push: genes set potential.
"Orthodox Jewish Nobel laureates like Robert Aumann, who tackled the Talmud in yeshiva studies in his youth, are the exceptions. Moreover, the evidence for environmental factors producing an outcome as distinct as this is weak."/8
"Magic recipe" would've been copied by others.
"Magic recipe" would've been copied by others.
“"There is scarcely any support in the literature,” write Cochran, et al., “for social effects like home environment on IQ.” Pinker supports their conclusion: “Siblings reared together are no more correlated in IQ than siblings who were separated at birth..."/9
"...and adopted siblings are not correlated at all. Growing up in a given home within a culture seems to leave no lasting stamp on intelligence." Murray: "Even the very best home environments add only a few points, if that, to a merely okay environment.""/10
Scientific consensus
Scientific consensus
"non-Ashkenazi Jews do not show high average IQ scores, and are not disproportionately represented in cognitively demanding fields"/11
One of the many lines of converging evidence not only pointing to but underlining the genetic evolutionary explanation for their high avg IQ.
One of the many lines of converging evidence not only pointing to but underlining the genetic evolutionary explanation for their high avg IQ.
"With contemporary Jews growing up in fairly typical middle class American homes, the hereditary hypothesis must play a significant role."/12
This would be widely accepted for any non-politiziced topic. Group differences in IQ, let alone genetic? Taboo (but the truth).
This would be widely accepted for any non-politiziced topic. Group differences in IQ, let alone genetic? Taboo (but the truth).
Bottom line:
Extravagant intellectual achievements of Ashkenazi Jews come down to polygenic factors as personality & cognitive traits are highly heritable.
Their avg IQ advantage is most likely ~100 % genetic in causation.
Thank you for reading 🙏
Extravagant intellectual achievements of Ashkenazi Jews come down to polygenic factors as personality & cognitive traits are highly heritable.
Their avg IQ advantage is most likely ~100 % genetic in causation.
Thank you for reading 🙏
P.S. The topic is important. Conspiracies, nepotism, magiclike cultural factors are falsified explanations & they only cause harm anyways. It's inevitable that in non-oppressive meritocracy where intelligence is rewarded Jews will do best especially at the zenith of achievement.
*politiCiZed...
I decided to attach some older material at the end of this thread. So, let's start.
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Something I wrote about e.g. *the composition* of the unique Ashkenazi IQ profile./1
Continuation, 1 of N.
Something I wrote about e.g. *the composition* of the unique Ashkenazi IQ profile./1
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Emancipation of Jews (who, for centuries, had been oppressed, and obviously continued to be) --> modern civilization thanks?
Not in line at all w/ environment/SES/oppression hypothesis.
Emancipation of Jews (who, for centuries, had been oppressed, and obviously continued to be) --> modern civilization thanks?
Not in line at all w/ environment/SES/oppression hypothesis.
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Another example of how group differences at tail end can be huge, due to polygenic differences (genes dictate max potential): ~90-fold over representation of Jews at top of chess in Soviet Union. La Griffe calculated IQ from outcomes -> got 110.
lagriffedulion.f2s.com/ashkenaz.htm
Another example of how group differences at tail end can be huge, due to polygenic differences (genes dictate max potential): ~90-fold over representation of Jews at top of chess in Soviet Union. La Griffe calculated IQ from outcomes -> got 110.
lagriffedulion.f2s.com/ashkenaz.htm
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"[Jews make up] 2% of Russia’s [population] & 70% of its [Nobel laureates], 10 of 14 Fields Prize or Wolf Prize winners for outstanding mathematical work, & 15 of the 33 Russian [chess] grandmasters."
Fig: effect of emancipation of Jews
"[Jews make up] 2% of Russia’s [population] & 70% of its [Nobel laureates], 10 of 14 Fields Prize or Wolf Prize winners for outstanding mathematical work, & 15 of the 33 Russian [chess] grandmasters."
Fig: effect of emancipation of Jews
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Biggest factor's their high verbal reasoning IQ avg (math IQ's also high).
aei.org/publication/je…
"In 1954, a psychologist used test results to identify all 28 children in the New York public-school system with measured IQ’s of 170 or higher. [...] 24 were Jews."
Biggest factor's their high verbal reasoning IQ avg (math IQ's also high).
aei.org/publication/je…
"In 1954, a psychologist used test results to identify all 28 children in the New York public-school system with measured IQ’s of 170 or higher. [...] 24 were Jews."
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About the astonishing verbal IQ of Ashkenazi Jews - which probably doesn't surprise anyone who is familiar with the American public intellectual scene & sciences.
About the astonishing verbal IQ of Ashkenazi Jews - which probably doesn't surprise anyone who is familiar with the American public intellectual scene & sciences.
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psychology.wikia.org/wiki/Race_and_…
Here's, as a side note, about the NE Asian composition of IQ. Opposite to that of Ashkenazim.
psychology.wikia.org/wiki/Race_and_…
Here's, as a side note, about the NE Asian composition of IQ. Opposite to that of Ashkenazim.
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about verbal vs. visuospatial IQ & their importance ("engineering vs. modern physics"):
about verbal vs. visuospatial IQ & their importance ("engineering vs. modern physics"):
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lagriffedulion.f2s.com/sft2.htm
"In market economies, per capita GDP is directly proportional to the population fraction with verbal IQ at or above some determinable threshold."
lagriffedulion.f2s.com/sft2.htm
"In market economies, per capita GDP is directly proportional to the population fraction with verbal IQ at or above some determinable threshold."
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lagriffedulion.f2s.com/diversity.htm
"Twenty-one of the 42 synagogues listed in the phonebook were located within a 2.5 mile radius of Pikesville Middle School." (figure anomaly)
#racialdifferences #groupdifferences #education #diversity #standardizedtests #SES #socialsciences
lagriffedulion.f2s.com/diversity.htm
"Twenty-one of the 42 synagogues listed in the phonebook were located within a 2.5 mile radius of Pikesville Middle School." (figure anomaly)
#racialdifferences #groupdifferences #education #diversity #standardizedtests #SES #socialsciences
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"Racial diversity in the classroom reduces white achievement more than it improves black."
"Anomalous white pass rate corresponds exactly to what we might expect of #AshkenaziJews a discrete cognitive group with a mean IQ approx 1SD above that of other European whites"
"Racial diversity in the classroom reduces white achievement more than it improves black."
"Anomalous white pass rate corresponds exactly to what we might expect of #AshkenaziJews a discrete cognitive group with a mean IQ approx 1SD above that of other European whites"
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Re: NE Asian high visuo-spatial & below avg verbal IQ:
"Lynn (1992) notes that higher socio-economic status groups tend to have high verbal intelligence, but these groups are not particularly high on visuo-spatial abilities." (from kevinmacdonald.net/PTSDAChap7.pdf)
Re: NE Asian high visuo-spatial & below avg verbal IQ:
"Lynn (1992) notes that higher socio-economic status groups tend to have high verbal intelligence, but these groups are not particularly high on visuo-spatial abilities." (from kevinmacdonald.net/PTSDAChap7.pdf)
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To come up w/ complex novel ideas (i.e. Newton, Einstein, Gell-Mann...), super high verbal IQ needed. NE Asians r able 2 take known concept & apply science, but due to lowish verbal IQ avg, small stand.dev. & collectivist culture:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.24
To come up w/ complex novel ideas (i.e. Newton, Einstein, Gell-Mann...), super high verbal IQ needed. NE Asians r able 2 take known concept & apply science, but due to lowish verbal IQ avg, small stand.dev. & collectivist culture:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.24
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What about high-level scientists & their IQ?
Here some illuminating info:
iqcomparisonsite.com/Roe.aspx
What about high-level scientists & their IQ?
Here some illuminating info:
iqcomparisonsite.com/Roe.aspx
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Yet, IQ isn't enough: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.24…
"original scientific achievement is predicted both by extremely high IQ & by curiosity (the q index), & that Northeast Asians score lower in the latter than do Europeans, based on genetic measures"
Yet, IQ isn't enough: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.24…
"original scientific achievement is predicted both by extremely high IQ & by curiosity (the q index), & that Northeast Asians score lower in the latter than do Europeans, based on genetic measures"
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lagriffedulion.f2s.com/color_of_merit…
#Harvard enroll. profile that'd result from BIAS-FREE admis. policy (computed; assigning IQ gap of -0.84 SD to Jews (NLSY data)) vs. bias admis.
Non-Jewish whites take biggest hit being least able of biased-against groups (N-J W, Asians, Jews)
lagriffedulion.f2s.com/color_of_merit…
#Harvard enroll. profile that'd result from BIAS-FREE admis. policy (computed; assigning IQ gap of -0.84 SD to Jews (NLSY data)) vs. bias admis.
Non-Jewish whites take biggest hit being least able of biased-against groups (N-J W, Asians, Jews)
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An epitome of a certain kind of Jewish genius? Let's look at the preternatural Edward Witten, "the smartest physicist alive". At even lower than this level, most in the USA are Ashkenazi Jewish. At this level, by far the most despite the ~2,5 % Jewish per Americans.
An epitome of a certain kind of Jewish genius? Let's look at the preternatural Edward Witten, "the smartest physicist alive". At even lower than this level, most in the USA are Ashkenazi Jewish. At this level, by far the most despite the ~2,5 % Jewish per Americans.
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Here a take on the topic by Steven Pinker in a video format, with Q & A (4 parts, 60 min in total).
#NYTimes #Jews #IQ #Intelligenceresearch #psychology #behavioralgenetics
Here a take on the topic by Steven Pinker in a video format, with Q & A (4 parts, 60 min in total).
#NYTimes #Jews #IQ #Intelligenceresearch #psychology #behavioralgenetics
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acreduprintemps19.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/the-10… <- read this magisterial contribution (last chapter is about Ashkenazim IQ) to the topic of the distinct #Ashkenazi #Jewish avg #IQ & IQ composition, and their evolutionary, genetic explanations + implications.
acreduprintemps19.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/the-10… <- read this magisterial contribution (last chapter is about Ashkenazim IQ) to the topic of the distinct #Ashkenazi #Jewish avg #IQ & IQ composition, and their evolutionary, genetic explanations + implications.
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archive.org/details/AQuest… (1992)
"The subject of #Jewish #IQ is a sensitive one." (goes on about same people who wince still keen to hear what the data show)
It show #Jews have extraordinary verbal IQ & general factor of #intelligence
archive.org/details/AQuest… (1992)
"The subject of #Jewish #IQ is a sensitive one." (goes on about same people who wince still keen to hear what the data show)
It show #Jews have extraordinary verbal IQ & general factor of #intelligence
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Groups (w/ suff. avg IQ) *copy culture efficiently* if it's advantageous. Jews've lived among gentiles. Professions over-representation can be explained partially w/ "culture of learning" - success at the zenith *NOT*. There their rate is *higher* <- only genes explain.
Groups (w/ suff. avg IQ) *copy culture efficiently* if it's advantageous. Jews've lived among gentiles. Professions over-representation can be explained partially w/ "culture of learning" - success at the zenith *NOT*. There their rate is *higher* <- only genes explain.
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Then there's for instance this: researchgate.net/publication/33…
"Just" one study but nicely aligns with the theory & predictions + previous data.
In nutshell: polygenic risk score distribution predicts IQ distribution w/ high accuracy, showing the known group dif.
Then there's for instance this: researchgate.net/publication/33…
"Just" one study but nicely aligns with the theory & predictions + previous data.
In nutshell: polygenic risk score distribution predicts IQ distribution w/ high accuracy, showing the known group dif.
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jinfo.org/index.html
This site has listed the extraordinarily disproportionate contributions to humanity by Jews in domains that reward high IQ.
jinfo.org/index.html
This site has listed the extraordinarily disproportionate contributions to humanity by Jews in domains that reward high IQ.
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This one has a good case study from the era of Austria-Hungarian empire. #Jews #IQ #Intelligence #physics
slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/26/the…
This one has a good case study from the era of Austria-Hungarian empire. #Jews #IQ #Intelligence #physics
slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/26/the…
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Fluid #IQ loads heavy on g factor of #intelligence & can hardly be elevated by environm./culture. #Genius level IQ depends on fluid IQ. Toward tail ends of distribution, #Jewish over-representation INCREASES. People like en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Elki… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_…
Fluid #IQ loads heavy on g factor of #intelligence & can hardly be elevated by environm./culture. #Genius level IQ depends on fluid IQ. Toward tail ends of distribution, #Jewish over-representation INCREASES. People like en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Elki… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_…
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IQ explains most of their disproportionate success: where verbal & math IQs are selected for, Jews do superbly whereas on domains rewarding high visuospatial IQ not as well as expected. High verbal & math, average visuosp. is making of evolutionary forces & genetic.
IQ explains most of their disproportionate success: where verbal & math IQs are selected for, Jews do superbly whereas on domains rewarding high visuospatial IQ not as well as expected. High verbal & math, average visuosp. is making of evolutionary forces & genetic.
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About Witten some more:
deseret.com/1997/4/27/1930…
22 years ago: "Time magazine recently called him "the most brilliant physicist in the world. Perhaps the most brilliant physicist who has ever lived."
About Witten some more:
deseret.com/1997/4/27/1930…
22 years ago: "Time magazine recently called him "the most brilliant physicist in the world. Perhaps the most brilliant physicist who has ever lived."
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"Ed's the kind of person who comes along once a century." - J. Schwarz, a theorist at Caltech. "He is as close as you are going to get to a living Einstein today." -M. Kaku
Witten, like Einstein, Von Neumann, Feynman, Garwin, Gell-Mann, Schwinger,...- an Ashkenazi Jew.
"Ed's the kind of person who comes along once a century." - J. Schwarz, a theorist at Caltech. "He is as close as you are going to get to a living Einstein today." -M. Kaku
Witten, like Einstein, Von Neumann, Feynman, Garwin, Gell-Mann, Schwinger,...- an Ashkenazi Jew.
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Re: #NYTimes #BretStephens column on #Jews #IQ #heritability, #JaredDiamond in #NatureMagazine in 1994:
unz.com/isteve/jared-d…
"lightning has struck Jewish lysosomes not once, not three times, but at least eight times. If your house is hit by lightning while..."
Re: #NYTimes #BretStephens column on #Jews #IQ #heritability, #JaredDiamond in #NatureMagazine in 1994:
unz.com/isteve/jared-d…
"lightning has struck Jewish lysosomes not once, not three times, but at least eight times. If your house is hit by lightning while..."
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"...a neighbour's house goes unscathed, you may curse your bad luck, but if it happens eight times you should seek causative factors."
Any person educated in #biology, #Intelligenceresearch, & #genetics knows this is work of natural selection.
"...a neighbour's house goes unscathed, you may curse your bad luck, but if it happens eight times you should seek causative factors."
Any person educated in #biology, #Intelligenceresearch, & #genetics knows this is work of natural selection.
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One of the foremost intelligence researchers of all time has dedicated a 300+ page book w/ 26 pages (!) of sources to the topic of #Ashkenazi #Jewish intelligence & achievements./5
intelligence-humaine.com/wp-content/upl…
One of the foremost intelligence researchers of all time has dedicated a 300+ page book w/ 26 pages (!) of sources to the topic of #Ashkenazi #Jewish intelligence & achievements./5
intelligence-humaine.com/wp-content/upl…
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I can think of no clearer-cut case outside of pure natural sciences where the converging evidence, pointing to same conclusion, is *stronger*. It would be easy to gather more #genetics evidence aligning with the conclusion but the political resistance is strong.
I can think of no clearer-cut case outside of pure natural sciences where the converging evidence, pointing to same conclusion, is *stronger*. It would be easy to gather more #genetics evidence aligning with the conclusion but the political resistance is strong.
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The huge over representation of Jews in intellectual domains selecting for high verbal & math reasoning vs. way lover in those selecting for high visuospatial & mechanical reasoning nicely fits the IQ based predictions.
The huge over representation of Jews in intellectual domains selecting for high verbal & math reasoning vs. way lover in those selecting for high visuospatial & mechanical reasoning nicely fits the IQ based predictions.
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If we look at different domains of mathematics, the visuospatial strength of NE Asians vs. verbal reasoning strength of Jews manifest themselves in how their math talents differ.
If we look at different domains of mathematics, the visuospatial strength of NE Asians vs. verbal reasoning strength of Jews manifest themselves in how their math talents differ.
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A: mankindquarterly.org/archive/issue/…
"Ashkenazi Jews have high average earnings, educational attainment, socio-economic status, and intellectual achievements. It is proposed that these can be at least partially explained by their high average IQ, which is estimated at 110."
A: mankindquarterly.org/archive/issue/…
"Ashkenazi Jews have high average earnings, educational attainment, socio-economic status, and intellectual achievements. It is proposed that these can be at least partially explained by their high average IQ, which is estimated at 110."
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There have been three principal explanations offered [ ] the Eugenic, the Persecution, & the Discrimination hypotheses. All provide plausible explanations and it may well be that all three of the factors they point to have contributed to this remarkable phenomenon."
There have been three principal explanations offered [ ] the Eugenic, the Persecution, & the Discrimination hypotheses. All provide plausible explanations and it may well be that all three of the factors they point to have contributed to this remarkable phenomenon."
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If you felt curious enough to grind through this somewhat disorganized & hastily parsed-together thread on what seems to be a somewhat taboo topic, I thank you; it's bed time here in Finland. :) Let's quote Mark Twain for an insightful closure:
If you felt curious enough to grind through this somewhat disorganized & hastily parsed-together thread on what seems to be a somewhat taboo topic, I thank you; it's bed time here in Finland. :) Let's quote Mark Twain for an insightful closure:
"..their general average of intelligence & intellectuality is far above our general average-& that is one of our reasons for wishing to drive them out of the higher forms of business & the professions. It is the swollen envy of pigmy minds-meanness, injustice."
-M. Twain on Jews
-M. Twain on Jews
I forgot to include my short pinned thread that includes a few readable articles by Diamond, Pinker, C. Murray, & Lynn's book & Cochran et al. paper from 2005 that I consider to be exceptionally powerful, rigorous, insightful, & illuminating.
