Leviathan
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Give credit where credit is due. Only 15 million Jews and they dominate in key industries. No wonder there is so much hate from dopes cloaked in bedsheets ? Ursula LOL
https://www.theapricity.com/forum/showthread.php?67408-Why-Are-Jews-So-Smart
Jews have been accused of many things but one accusation that we're never accused of is being stupid. One indication of intelligence is measured by IQ, which Jews are consistantly at the top of (even above East Asians). The man whose very name is a shorthand for genius was an Ashkenazi Jew named Einstein.
"Though Jews make up a mere 0.25 percent of the world’s population and a mere 3 percent of the United States’, they account for 27 percent of all American Nobel Prize winners, 25 percent of all ACM Turing Award winners for computer science, and 50 percent of the globe’s chess champions. Cochran and Harpending also cite studies claiming that Ashkenazim have the highest IQ of any ethnic group for which there’s reliable data, perhaps as much as a full standard deviation above the general European average, which means, at the far end of the spectrum, that 23 per thousand Ashkenazim have an IQ over 140, as opposed to 4 per thousand Northern Europeans."
So the question I wonder is, "why are Jews so smart?"
The theories, I think, can be divided into 4;
1. Levantine people like Lebanese are also good merchants and smart business-minded people so it's really just a good mixture of Armanoid, Semitic and Indo-Euro DNA leading to a talented people. This explains why Sephardi people were so successful too.
2. Culture; Jewish culture puts a heavy emphasis on study as well as debate, not just rote learning like a lot of religions. Jews, as "people of the book," are almost all highly literate and have been, unlike many other peoples, for thousands of years. "Jewish mothers" stereotypically want their children to be doctors and lawyers and there's a lot of pressure to succeed and Jewish tribalism with a ready-made network helped Jews succeed finacially and culturally. This theory doesn't explain how Jews came to dominate the careers once excluded to them by law or quota systems.
3. One recent theory is that Ashkenazi interbreeding (eg starting from a relatively small original population of about 15,000) which has lead to inherited deseases has also lead to brain mutation leading to increased intelligence. "The argument of Cochran and Harpending depends on Ashkenazi uniqueness. Their major contribution is to elaborate evidence that Ashkenazi intelligence is linked to mutations associated with brain metabolism and to certain Jewish genetic diseases (e.g., Tay-Sachs disease)." This theory doesn't explain why other Jewish groups eg Iraqi, Sephardi etc have also done so well within their own cultures historically.
4. The smartest people in pre-modern societies became religious leaders but Rabbis, unlike Catholic Priests, had children and passed on their genes whereas Priests were celebate so didn't pass on their genes to future generations. In fact Rabbis tended to have MORE children than the average Jew so gradually Jews got smarter whereas gentile Western Europeans didn't, or even regressed over the course of 1000 years, as it tended to be the poorer and less intelligent people who had more children in gentile societies with the (presumably) more intelligent (at least better educated) upper classes having less children.
My own view is Jewish genius is a mixture of all 4 of these reasons. What do people think?
Further reading; http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/articl...wrepublic.html
https://www.theapricity.com/forum/showthread.php?67408-Why-Are-Jews-So-Smart
Jews have been accused of many things but one accusation that we're never accused of is being stupid. One indication of intelligence is measured by IQ, which Jews are consistantly at the top of (even above East Asians). The man whose very name is a shorthand for genius was an Ashkenazi Jew named Einstein.
"Though Jews make up a mere 0.25 percent of the world’s population and a mere 3 percent of the United States’, they account for 27 percent of all American Nobel Prize winners, 25 percent of all ACM Turing Award winners for computer science, and 50 percent of the globe’s chess champions. Cochran and Harpending also cite studies claiming that Ashkenazim have the highest IQ of any ethnic group for which there’s reliable data, perhaps as much as a full standard deviation above the general European average, which means, at the far end of the spectrum, that 23 per thousand Ashkenazim have an IQ over 140, as opposed to 4 per thousand Northern Europeans."
So the question I wonder is, "why are Jews so smart?"
The theories, I think, can be divided into 4;
1. Levantine people like Lebanese are also good merchants and smart business-minded people so it's really just a good mixture of Armanoid, Semitic and Indo-Euro DNA leading to a talented people. This explains why Sephardi people were so successful too.
2. Culture; Jewish culture puts a heavy emphasis on study as well as debate, not just rote learning like a lot of religions. Jews, as "people of the book," are almost all highly literate and have been, unlike many other peoples, for thousands of years. "Jewish mothers" stereotypically want their children to be doctors and lawyers and there's a lot of pressure to succeed and Jewish tribalism with a ready-made network helped Jews succeed finacially and culturally. This theory doesn't explain how Jews came to dominate the careers once excluded to them by law or quota systems.
3. One recent theory is that Ashkenazi interbreeding (eg starting from a relatively small original population of about 15,000) which has lead to inherited deseases has also lead to brain mutation leading to increased intelligence. "The argument of Cochran and Harpending depends on Ashkenazi uniqueness. Their major contribution is to elaborate evidence that Ashkenazi intelligence is linked to mutations associated with brain metabolism and to certain Jewish genetic diseases (e.g., Tay-Sachs disease)." This theory doesn't explain why other Jewish groups eg Iraqi, Sephardi etc have also done so well within their own cultures historically.
4. The smartest people in pre-modern societies became religious leaders but Rabbis, unlike Catholic Priests, had children and passed on their genes whereas Priests were celebate so didn't pass on their genes to future generations. In fact Rabbis tended to have MORE children than the average Jew so gradually Jews got smarter whereas gentile Western Europeans didn't, or even regressed over the course of 1000 years, as it tended to be the poorer and less intelligent people who had more children in gentile societies with the (presumably) more intelligent (at least better educated) upper classes having less children.
My own view is Jewish genius is a mixture of all 4 of these reasons. What do people think?
Further reading; http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/articl...wrepublic.html
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