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But tellingly, it's Not "just Jews".
It's Ashkenazi Jewish intelligence/IQ that is the well known phenomenon.
If you google it you will find tons of info. (Please do!)
It's Not in dispute.
This is NOT the case with ALL "Jews" (ie, Sephardic) who get basically the same upbringing and culture.
Nor does either group get as much emphasis/Obsessive pushing on academics than the Second highest IQers, NE Asians.
and None of it would explain why those with Ashkenazi Genes make up half the world Chess Champions, since at the serious, but Junior, Chess level they make up small percentages vs the rest of the planet, especially non-Jewish Russians.
Nor would it explain there 20x over-representation in Nobel Prizes, since, again, in absolute number, many more people get highly cultural upbringings.
And of course, it absolutely makes sense If one believes in Evolution.
For more than a millennia, Jews were forbidden from owning land/farming and many professions.
The more successful ones (who procreated more) were those who were better Merchants, Bankers, Scholars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alansohn/Ashkenazi_intelligence
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Expert Findings
Psychometrics research has found that Ashkenazi Jews have the highest mean score of any ethnic group on standardized tests of general intelligence, at roughly one half to one standard deviation higher than the mean of the general white population.[5] These studies also indicate that this advantage is primarily in verbal and mathematical performance; spatial performance is about 90, if whites are taken as the mean. Estimates vary from 107 to 117. [6][7][8][9]
Achievement
Ashkenazi Jews have made disproportionately Large contributions to presumably Intellectual pursuits.
Though they are about a ¼ of 1% of the world's population, they comprise 28% of Nobel Prize winners in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics, and have accounted for More than HALF of world Chess Champions.[10]
In the United States, Ashkenazi Jews represent less than 2% of the population, but have won 40% of the Nobel Prizes in science awarded to U.S. citizens, and 25% of all Turing Awards.
A significant decline in the number of Nobel Prizes awarded to Europeans and a corresponding increase in the number of prizes awarded to U.S. citizens occurred at the same time as Nazi persecutions of Jews drove them from Europe during the 1930s and the Holocaust reduced their number in Europe during the 1940s.[11]
Cochran et al.
The 2005 study Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence [1] by Gregory Cochran, Jason Hardy, and Henry Harpending at the University of Utah noted that European Jews were forbidden to work in many of the common jobs of the middle-ages from C.E. 800 to 1700, such as agriculture, and subsequently worked in high proportion in meritocratic jobs requiring higher intelligence, such as finance and trade, some of which were forbidden to gentiles by the church. Those who performed better are known to have raised more children to adulthood, according to Cochran et al., passing on their genes in greater proportion than those who performed less successfully.[2]
Cochran et. al. hypothesized that the eugenic pressure was strong enough that mutations creating higher intelligence when inherited...
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Expert Findings
Psychometrics research has found that Ashkenazi Jews have the highest mean score of any ethnic group on standardized tests of general intelligence, at roughly one half to one standard deviation higher than the mean of the general white population.[5] These studies also indicate that this advantage is primarily in verbal and mathematical performance; spatial performance is about 90, if whites are taken as the mean. Estimates vary from 107 to 117. [6][7][8][9]
Achievement
Ashkenazi Jews have made disproportionately Large contributions to presumably Intellectual pursuits.
Though they are about a ¼ of 1% of the world's population, they comprise 28% of Nobel Prize winners in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics, and have accounted for More than HALF of world Chess Champions.[10]
In the United States, Ashkenazi Jews represent less than 2% of the population, but have won 40% of the Nobel Prizes in science awarded to U.S. citizens, and 25% of all Turing Awards.
A significant decline in the number of Nobel Prizes awarded to Europeans and a corresponding increase in the number of prizes awarded to U.S. citizens occurred at the same time as Nazi persecutions of Jews drove them from Europe during the 1930s and the Holocaust reduced their number in Europe during the 1940s.[11]
Cochran et al.
The 2005 study Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence [1] by Gregory Cochran, Jason Hardy, and Henry Harpending at the University of Utah noted that European Jews were forbidden to work in many of the common jobs of the middle-ages from C.E. 800 to 1700, such as agriculture, and subsequently worked in high proportion in meritocratic jobs requiring higher intelligence, such as finance and trade, some of which were forbidden to gentiles by the church. Those who performed better are known to have raised more children to adulthood, according to Cochran et al., passing on their genes in greater proportion than those who performed less successfully.[2]
Cochran et. al. hypothesized that the eugenic pressure was strong enough that mutations creating higher intelligence when inherited...
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