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Well, Jews are 3x over-represented in US Congress and to a variable degree in other high-effort, high-reward areas such as law and yes, media management. Unles
by jojobas 6y ago
Well, Jews are 3x over-represented in US Congress and to a variable degree in other high-effort, high-reward areas such as law and yes, media management.
Unless you'd suspect a conspiracy, there has to be a genetic or a cultural reason for that and the problem with that is that any such reason could plausibly apply to Black Americans.
- pseudalopex 6y agoBiodiversity implies it isn't cultural.
- jojobas 6y agoAdoption studies also don't suggest that. Ashkenazi Jews seem to actually have a different brain model.
- pseudalopex 6y agoDifferent brain model? Just say genetic if you mean genetic.
- jojobas 6y agoYes, a genetically different brain model. https://web.mit.edu/fustflum/documents/papers/AshkenaziIQ.jbiosocsci.pdf https://web.mit.edu/fustflum/documents/papers/AshkenaziIQ.jb...
- pseudalopex 6y agoBrain model doesn't seem to be a common term. The linked paper uses the word model several times but not in a way that matches how used it. I'm not going to debate the paper. For the benefit of anyone else reading here's a rebuttal.[1] I suggest reading both. [1] http://web.archive.org/web/20131029200900/https://www.ncas.rutgers.edu/sites/fasn/files/How%20Jews%20Became%20Smart%20(2008).pdf http://web.archive.org/web/20131029200900/https://www.ncas.r...