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> Only about 2% of the U.S. population is of full Ashkenazi Jewish descent, but 27% of United States Nobel prize winners in the 20th century, 25% of the winners
by Alex3917 7y ago
> Only about 2% of the U.S. population is of full Ashkenazi Jewish descent, but 27% of United States Nobel prize winners in the 20th century, 25% of the winners of the Fields Medal (the top prize in mathematics), 25% of ACM Turing Award winners, a quarter of Westinghouse Science Talent Search winners, and 38% of the Oscar-winning film directors have either full or partial Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry.
So what percentage of the population has partial Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry?
- DoreenMichele 7y agoThat's a really good question. I can't immediately find an answer. What I can find is data that says Jews have won 22% of Nobel Prizes globally while being only 0.2% of the global population, but that starts getting into "how to lie with statistics" territory because I imagine few such prizes go to people in developing countries. So I think the American figures are a more good faith attempt to quantify the known fact that Jews are seriously overrepresented. https://www.algemeiner.com/2013/10/29/richard-dawkins-perplexed-by-high-number-of-jewish-nobel-prize-winners/ https://www.algemeiner.com/2013/10/29/richard-dawkins-perple...
- dcow 7y agoIt’s also possible that these smart Jews have biased towards investigating and inventing more disorders surrounding their own population than other ones.