“Doctor, if I may have a moment of your time...”
So the old claim that “ignorance is bliss” is true?
I give you Paris Hilton..
...and apparently you don't have to be too darn smart to get some sap to pay you mucho green to do a study of the obvious.
Ted Kennedy is proof.
Does this mean that the Jewish people have financial problems like everyone else? See the below for a previous related posting about intelligent people:
British researcher claims ‘Jews smarter, it’s genetic’
YNet News ^ | April 11, 2007
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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Does this mean that Jewish people have financial problems like everyone else? See below for a previous related posting about intelligent people:
British researcher claims ‘Jews smarter, it’s genetic’
YNet News ^ | April 11, 2007
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at ynetnews.com ...
In my experience there are few sadder things than a stupid rich man and a smart poor man.
Both tend to be impossible to deal with.
Sorry about the double posting! My computer & my finger glitched.
The typical American adult with an IQ of 130 is very likely to be a graduate of an Ivy League school and/or law school,medical school or business school whereas with an IQ of 100 that adult might have an associate degree from a community college if he/she is lucky.
And I assure you that the typical graduate of Yale makes far,far,*far* more than does the typical graduate of East Valley Community College.
It was not the AFQT, it was the GT portion of the AFQT, which was a modified Stanford-Binet IQ test. And yes, I took it in 1980.
“Smart People Are No Better Off”
Huh? Oh! You mean financially. Well, maybe smart people have a slightly different set of values. Maybe they’re not trying as hard to make money because they’re more satisfied with their lives.
Or maybe they inherited all they needed!