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How do you measure 25% of the world's intellectual output? I'm a fan of Judea Pearl and Woody Allen, but I think that's a pretty strong statement to make
by mateo411 7y ago
How do you measure 25% of the world's intellectual output? I'm a fan of Judea Pearl and Woody Allen, but I think that's a pretty strong statement to make
- coryrc 7y agoHe/she's talking Albert Einstein, et al: https://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/august/german-jewish-inventors-081114.html https://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/august/german-jewish-inv...
- csdreamer7 7y agoAlso, Sergey Brin (Google co-Founder). His father's tale of anti-semitism in Russia is now quite famous. https://www.cnet.com/news/googles-brin-anti-semitism-forced-my-family-out-of-russia/ https://www.cnet.com/news/googles-brin-anti-semitism-forced-...
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- vishnugupta 7y ago> How do you measure 25% of the world's intellectual output? Neil deGrasse Tyson used Nobel prize winners as a measure (~30% of them are Jews). While I agree that it's hard to measure it is representative of the underlying picture.
- toasterlovin 7y agoEuropean Jews make up a pretty consistent 25% of America's Nobel, Fields medal, and ACM Turing Awards winners. And they're about a third of the student populace at the Ivy Leagues and 30 percent of Supreme Court law clerks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jewish_intelligence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jewish_intelligence