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Ashkenazi Jews would seem to be a well-studied sub-population that tends to possess above-average intelligence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jewish_
by douche 11y ago
Ashkenazi Jews would seem to be a well-studied sub-population that tends to possess above-average intelligence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jewish_intelligence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jewish_intelligence
- ZeroGravitas 11y agoI notice in that page it compares the number of "full" Ashkenazi Jews in the population, to the number of people who won various academic prizes who had "full or partial" Ashkenazi ancenstry, which seems like a very blatant distortion. On reading slightly further I see someone else has already spotted this and added that disclaimer to the text. Seems like it would be relatively easy to compare like with like here, which makes me suspicious of why it isn't done. Does that mean that the effect disappears when you do that comparison? It's certainly going to be reduced.
- GPGPU 11y agoAs an Ashkenazi Jew, I'd tend to agree. We're also much better looking than other people!
- danieltillett 11y agoEven if it were true that Ashkenazi Jews as a group had above average intelligence, there just are not enough Ashkenazi Jews in the world to have a significant influence on the distribution of human intelligence.