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Ashkenazi Jewish intelligence

Hans de Vries
in Psychiatry and Psychology

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Is it higher than average or not?

 

To my estimation, their achievements as a group are higher than predicted by the oft-cited 1 SD higher IQ.

Reputedly they have one of the highest, if not the highest racial IQs. 27% of US Nobel Prize winners, 23% of wealthiest Americans, 21% of Ivy League students, Albert Eistein.

Anecdotally, I had the impression a lot of the the smart students in my class identified themselves as Jewish. Maybe true of this forum too.

But is it nature or nurture?

It's tempting, though I've done my IQ test before and an intellectual peon like myself most likely wouldn't qualify for such lofty standards :'(

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