Posted: Jan 29, 2011 5:13 pm
Shrunk wrote:tribalypredisposed wrote:
2)"...there is no evidence that they exhibit higher intelligence scores than other groups." "Entine laid out the data. The average IQ of Ashkenazi Jews is 107 to 115, well above the human average of 100. " "...the average Ashkenazi Jewish score of 122 on verbal IQ tests" - http://www.slate.com/id/2177228/
% Jewish
20-30% Westinghouse Science Prize
30% Faculty at elite colleges
30% Supreme Court Law Clerks
27% Ivy Leaguers
25% ACM Turing Award
27% Nobel Prizes won by Americans
- http://lagriffedulion.f2s.com/dialogue.htm
And of course all the other data I provided in an earlier post...47% of world chess champions for one. Even if the average of Jewish intelligence is not higher than 100, as some sources claim, we do produce more outliers on the far right of the bell curve than other groups. Far more. That is highly unlikely to be purely cultural.
Interesting line of argument. I see you are also Canadian, so perhaps you'll find this chart interesting:
http://www.thephysicsofhockey.com/documents/country.pdf
As you can see Canadian, making up only 0.5% of the world's population, make up over 50% of elite professional hockey players.
I guess the only conclusion we can draw from that is that Canadians are genetically predisposed to excelling at hockey, and even if the Canadian climate was the same as that of Brazil those statistics would be the same.
I was so impressed with that post that I forgot what I wanted to say.
Oh yes, on IQs, you need an IQ of at least 108 in order to finish high school. I'm not going to look that up, I remember learning it in psychology about 300 years ago. Anyway the point is that anyone who completes high school, already has an above average IQ, so big deal about 107 IQs. I'm not impressed.