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THREAD: (Ashkenazi) Jewish intelligence, cognitive profile, outcomes, & nature/nurture 🧬🧠✡️

Source: amazon.com/Intelligence-G…

Topics: #Psychology #IntelligenceResearch #IQ #BehaviorGenetics #GroupDifferences #Jews

"…the "Jewish intellect" appears to be centered on..."/1

"...An ability to manipulate and integrate chains of reasoning, especially those related to "causality", coupled with faculty otherwise known as verbal and/or symbolic analytics to interrelate and explain derived meanings. An ability to..."/2

"...integrate emotional context with such analytical frameworks as the skill needed to attain proficiency in conduction and playing classical music, acting, selling, and practicing psychotherapy."/3

"It would be inappropriate to conclude that a single generation of exposure to such an environment [Jewish home] is sufficient to produce the extent of giftedness displayed among the “people of the Book”, just as..."/4

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"...it would be wrong to conclude that one or two generations of rearing in an environment lacking in these “enrichments will cause the complete disappearance of this giftedness."/5

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"Jewish people…excel in some cognitive domains – for example, verbal and numerical ability – but not in others, as witness their unexceptional performance on certain types of spatial or perceptual problems (where their scores sometimes average slightly below the test norms)."/6

"As a consequence, the scores of Jewish subjects on tests that have high verbal, numerical, and conceptual factor loadings (such as the Stanford-Binet) will usually exceed their scores on tests that have a greater or exclusive emphasis on nonverbal and/or perceptual skills."/7

"Among the fields in which Jews represent a relatively insignifican proportion of historically great people are painting, architecture, and the more observational sciences...such fields as earth science, botany, zoology...fall behind that of non-Jewish whites."/9

"...perform well in areas that depend (1) on the ability to comprehend and skillfull manipulate long chains of verbally coded reasoning and/or (2) on the ability to integrate emotional or other behaviorally coded information into a temporally coded, meaning-oriented framework"/10

"...perform less well in areas where the visuospatial and emotional perceptions of the brain's right hemisphere are directly available to the "mind's eye" and are integrated into a pictorial or structural framework."/11

An exceptional number of Jews score at or near genius level on the Stanford-Binet [intelligence test].

24 of 28 (86 %) of children in New York City w/ IQ scores of 170 or higher (every public school student was given the paper & pencil test) were Jewish./12

"Several considerations work against the conclusion that a single generation of exposure to such an environment [Jewish home] could have enabled children to attain these heightened abilities. These include..."/13

"...(1) the large percentage of Jewish people that test at a genius or near-genius level and the exceedingly small proportion scoring below the norm, both of which suggest that the entire IQ distribution has risen [web.mit.edu/fustflum/docum…] & [cremieux.medium.com/the-jewish-adv…];..."/14

"...(2) the early age at which high IQ scores are routinely displayed; (3) the marvelous accomplishments of the Jewish people [extravagantly disproportionately by *Ashkenazim*, genetically distinct Jewish diasphora population]..."/15

"..., which amply demonstrate that the forms that the Jewish intellect has taken are exceedingly favorable for meaningful achievements; and (4)...evidence that this heightened ability neither develops nor dissipates in a single generation."/16

twtext.com/article/131669…

Some of the lines of evidence for the conclusion that the *Ashkenazi* Jewish IQ advantage (and *distinct* IQ profile) are genetic in origin (and caused by evolutionary selection over at most ~1000 years: pastebin.com/6GVeUj1k] /17

How does the atypical Jewish genius manifest itself in certain people? Saul Kripke en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Krip… & Ed Witten kew1beans.wordpress.com/2014/10/24/219/ serve as good examples. At this level of genius, Jews are even more overrepresented than at IQ 145 level./18

A few interesting articles to read:

newrepublic.com/article/77727/… (by #StevenPinker)

commentarymagazine.com/articles/charl… (by @CharlesMurray)

unz.com/isteve/jared-d… (by @Steve_Sailer based on #JaredDiamond's 1994 article)/19

And finally, a wonderful piece on ASSESSING THE ASHKENAZIC IQ (and IQ as a success predictor) USING CHESS

lagriffedulion.f2s.com/ashkenaz.htm

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P.S. twtext.com/article/131669…

In a nutshell, the level of disproportionate success of Ashkenazi Jews can be predicted from, is mainly explained by, and is well in line with the known causality between IQ and positive outcomes within and between groups.

P.P.S. I forgot to add the heading:

'SOME EVIDENCE FOR ***ASHKENAZI*** JEWISH INTELLIGENCE/IQ ADVANTAGE = ~FULLY GENETIC IN ORIGIN (& the major cause of their extravagant overrepresentation in intellectual achievements rewarding high g factor of intelligence & verbal IQ)'

Related outcome stat, with a fascinating compatibility (genius IQ <-> Nobel):

timesofisrael.com/new-york-jews-…

88 % of the over 40 Nobel Laureates originating from NY City public city high schools are Jews. No, not 8,8 % -- 88 %...