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edit: before I get people bitching at me http://www.halfsigma.com/2006/06/high_iq_does_no.html http://www.halfsigma.com/2006/06/high_iq_does_no.html this is a
by borism 16y ago
edit: before I get people bitching at me http://www.halfsigma.com/2006/06/high_iq_does_no.html http://www.halfsigma.com/2006/06/high_iq_does_no.html
this is a great link since we had this argument here before with about half HNers thinking that income somehow correlates to IQ.
however this link doesn't explain why you think jews (as practitioners of judaism, not as a nationality) have higher IQs?
- imesh 16y agoBecause people who are practitioners are 90% of the time, also ethnically Jews.
- borism 16y ago90% of Judaism practitioners have higher IQ because they're jews. Makes sense...
- Kadin 16y agoWhile not all practitioners of the Jewish religion are ethnically Jews (Ashkenazim, Sephardim, etc.) and vice versa, there's certainly a very strong correlation. That's certainly enough to produce an apparent religious-IQ linkage, if indeed there's a ethnic-IQ linkage. (It doesn't, of course, say anything about causation.) You could similarly link the Hindu religion to dark hair, or other genetic traits common among ethnic groups who have a high percentage of Hindu practitioners. It wouldn't be true all the time, but it would probably show a significant correlation.
- endtime 16y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_intelligence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_intelligence
- guelo 16y agoWow, I had heard of and thought there might be something to the IQ studies that show Ashkenazi Jews as smarter but now that I see the supposed evidence on that Wikipedia page I'm just laughing. If those 4 studies are the best proof they can come up with then I'm left to believe this is all part of some jewish propaganda.
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