Posted on 04/11/2007 12:30:36 PM PDT by Cecily
Jews' average IQ score is seven to 15 points higher than gentiles and they are exceptionally accomplished, claims the British social theorist Dr Charles Murray.
"Jewish genius", Murray says, is a topic so sensitive that Jews rarely address it. Writing in Commentary, a neoconservative journal, Murray argues that anti-Semitism has succeeded in blurring the connection, but the Jews' accomplishments are scientifically based. Murray said he regards himself as a Scotsman who came to Britain from Iowa and therefore is not afraid to broach and elaborate on the findings in his research.
Murray sparked outrage with his 1994 book The Bell Curve, which addressed what he saw as black under-achievement. He claims that some groups are genetically more accomplished than others. He mentions that from the birth of monotheism to the medieval philosopher Maimonides, the 17th-century rationalist Spinoza, and the scientists, artists and intellectuals of the modern world, Jews have shown a rare affinity with scholarship.
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hoo boigh! this is a-gonna fan the fires of the ME!
Quick, somebody call Micheal Ray Richardson’s agent.
This guy better hire himself some bodyguards, quick!
Least he didn’t call them “a bunch of yarmulke-headed heebs”.
Not so sure about the genetic/IQ connection but they do sem to take a more active roll in raising their kids. Could it be that better parenting leads to smarter kids?
YNet, at least, is not intelligent enough to realize that Charles Murray is American, not British.
No surprise for serious students of Scripture.
Older study on the same topic (from 2005):
http://homepage.mac.com/harpend/.Public/AshkenaziIQ.jbiosocsci.pdf
Discussion of the paper:
http://www.answers.com/topic/ashkenazi-intelligence#wp-_note-0
Their political affiliations certainly don’t show it.
Wow. you nailed it. Those 12 words just blew that theory right outta the ballpark.
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Olmert, Peretz - virtually the whole lot of them seem to have a combined IQ no greater than my shoe size.
BigE , Israel (04.11.07)”
one of those comments
But there is always someone who dislikes his own family enough to diss it in public.
The article says he was originally from Scotland. I thought he was American too. I have heard him on Bill Bennett’s show, and I don’t remember him having a foreign accent or even a trace of one.
Correction - I misread Murray’s comment about Scotland.
“YNet, at least, is not intelligent enough to realize that Charles Murray is American, not British.”
Articles says:
“Murray said he regards himself as a Scotsman who came to Britain from Iowa ...”
Easy to miss, though.
Hank
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I was just about to say that a quick look at any serious study of Judaism or Roman Catholic theology pretty much blows away Bill Maher's "stupid religious" theory.
I tend to think those two cultures tend to demand a certain degree of scholarship that certainly increases the common interest in history and languages.
Yeah, that’ll help the global debates. /sarc>
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