Posted on 04/03/2007 3:32:25 AM PDT by T.L.Sink
Commentary has never published a systematic discussion of one of the most obvious topics of all: the extravagant overrepresentation of Jews, relative to their numbers, in the top ranks of the arts, sciences, law, medicine, finance, entrepreneurship, and the media. I have personal experience with the reluctance of Jews to talk about Jewish accomplishment - my co-author, the late Richard Herrnstein, gently resisted the paragraphs on Jewish IQ that I insisted on putting in "The Bell Curve" (1994). I cover three topics: the timing and nature of Jewish accomplishment, focusing on the arts and sciences; elevated Jewish IQ as an explanation for that accomplishment; and current theories about how the Jews acquired their elevated IQ. I begin with the assumption that elevated Jewish intelligence is grounded in genetics. It is no longer seriously disputed that intelligence in Homo sapiens is substantially heritable. In the last two decades, it has also been established that obvious environmental factors such as high income, books in the house, and parental reading to children are not as potent as one might expect. Even the very best home environments add only a few points, if that, to a merely okay environment. It is also known that children adopted at birth do not achieve the IQ's predicted by their parents' IQ. To put it another way, we have good reason to think that Gentile children raised in Jewish families do not acquire Jewish intelligence.
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Stop the bubbameister!
Is it because many are Hungarians and Hungarians are space aliens?
D'OH!.. and Duuugh..
I call it the way I see it.
How utterly ironic.
Race and Culture: A World View (Paperback)
by Thomas Sowell
http://www.amazon.com/Race-Culture-World-Thomas-Sowell/dp/0465067972
From Publishers Weekly
Sowell ( Ethnic America ) draws on a worldwide range of examples and more than a decade of research in this intriguing exploration of the role of cultural attributes on group advancement. He aims to demonstrate the “reality, persistence, and consequences of cultural differences—contrary to many of today’s grand theories based on the supposed dominant role of ‘objective conditions,’ ‘economic forces’ or ‘social structures.’ “ He tackles a host of issues: the costs and benefits of residential segregation; how affirmative action primarily helps better-off members of preferred groups; how prominent political leaders are not crucial to group success; how low-scoring groups on intelligence tests do their worst on abstract questions devoid of “cultural bias.” Sowell’s observations have force, but he sometimes sacrifices depth for breadth. Although he claims to avoid policy prescriptions, he includes facile swipes against multiculturalism and argues, with varying degrees of plausibility, against liberal policies on race.
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You can never go wrong with Tom Sowell
review
“...difficult to separate nature and nurture”.
I think the author has fairly well established the fact that nurture does not have nearly the significance as nature. It’s all about genetics.
“This is part of an Irish conspiracy. You’ve noticed how no one accuses us of running the world.”
God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from running the world.
(That said, IMHO the two guiding forces of intellectualism and culture in the Western world -— post Greece — have been the Scotts/Irish and the Jews.)
“Not typing about long noses.”
As Mrs. MWT says, admiring our very “Jewish” noses, “air is free.”
Which, candidly, is a way to get work done.
If everyone is an alpha, no one would dig ditches.
And if everyone is a gamma, they’d just sit around in hovels.
It might be interesting to note that the more religious a Jew is the less liberal he/she tends to be.
Orthodox Jews are politically conservative.
Jewish Nobel Laureates:
The Global Jewish population is approximately 14,000,000, or about 0.02% of the world population.
They have received the following Nobel Prizes:
Literature:
1910 - Paul Heyse
1927 - Henri Bergson
1958 - Boris Pasternak
1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon
1966 - Nelly Sachs
1976 - Saul Bellow
1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer
1981 - Elias Canetti
1987 - Joseph Brodsky
1991 - Nadine Gordimer World
Peace:
1911 - Alfred Fried
1911 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser
1968 - Rene Cassin
1973 - Henry Kissinger
1978 - Menachem Begin
1986 - Elie Wiesel
1994 - Shimon Peres
1994 - Yitzhak Rabin
Physics:
1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer
1906 - Henri Moissan
1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson
1908 - Gabriel Lippmann
1910 - Otto Wallach
1915 - Richard Willstaetter
1918 - Fritz Haber
1921 - Albert Einstein
1922 - Niels Bohr
1925 - James Franck
1925 - Gustav Hertz
1943 - Gustav Stern
1943 - George Charles de Hevesy
1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi
1952 - Felix Bloc h
1954 - Max Born
1958 - Igor Tamm
1959 - Emilio Segre
1960 - Donald A. Glaser
1961 - Robert Hofstadter
1961 - Melvin Calvin
1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau
1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz
1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman
1965 - Julian Schwinger
1969 - Murray Gell-Mann
1971 - Dennis Gabor
1972 - William Howard Stein
1973 - Brian David Josephson
1975 - Benjamin Mottleson
1976 - Burton Richter
1977 - Ilya Prigogine
1978 - Arno Allan Penzias
1978 - Peter L Kapitza
1979 - Stephen Weinberg
1979 - Sheldon Glashow
1979 - Herbert Charle s Brown
1980 - Paul Berg
1980 - Walter Gilbert
1981 - Roald Hoffmann
1982 - Aaron Klug
1985 - Albert A. Hauptman
1985 - Jerome Karle
1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach
1988 - Robert Huber
1988 - Leon Lederman
1988 - Melvin Schwartz
1988 - Jack Steinberger
1989 - Sidney Altman
1990 - Jerome Friedman
1992 - Rudolph Marcus
1995 - Martin Perl
2000 - Alan J. Heeger
Economics:
1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson
1971 - Simon Kuznets
1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow
1975 - Leonid Kantorovich
1976 - Milton Friedman
1978 - Herbert A. Simon
1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein
1985 - Franco Modigliani
1987 - Robert M. Solow
1990 - Harry Markowitz
1990 - Merton Miller
1992 - Gary Becker
1993 - Robert Fogel
Medicine:
1908 - Elie Metchnikoff
1908 - Paul Erlich
1914 - Robert Barany
1922 - Otto Meyerhof
1930 - Karl Landsteiner
1931 - Otto Warburg
1936 - Otto Loewi
1944 - Joseph Erlanger
1944 - Herbert Spencer Gasser
1945 - Ernst Boris Chain
1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller
1950 - Tadeus Reichstein
1952 - Selman Abra ham Waksman
1953 - Hans Krebs
1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann
1958 - Joshua Lederberg
1959 - Arthur Kornberg
1964 - Konrad Bloch
1965 - Francois Jaco b
1965 - Andre Lwoff
1967 - George Wald
1968 - Marshall W. Nirenberg
1969 - Salvador Luria
1970 - Julius Axelrod
1970 - Sir Bernard Katz
1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman
1975 - Howard Martin Temin
1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg
1977 - Roselyn Sussman Yalow
1978 - Daniel Nathans
1980 - Baruj Benacerraf
1984 - Cesar Milstein
1985 - Michael Stuart Brown
1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein
1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini]
1988 - Gertrude Elion
1989 - Harold Varmus
1991 - Erwin Neher
1991 - Bert Sakmann
1993 - Richard J. Roberts
1993 - Phillip Sharp
1994 - Alfred Gilman
1995 - Edward B. Lewis
Jewish Laureates of Nobel Prize in Chemistry
2004
Ciechanover, Aaron
“for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation”
Israel
2004
Hershko, Avram
“for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation”
Hungary
2004
Rose, Irwin
“for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation”
USA
2000
Heeger, Alan J.
“for the discovery and development of conductive polymers”
USA
1998
Kohn, Walter
“for his development of the density-functional theory”
Austria
1994
Olah, George A.
“for his contribution to carbocation chemistry”
Hungary
1992
Marcus, Rudolph A.
“for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems”
Canada
1989
Altman, Sidney
“for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA”
Canada
1985
Hauptman, Herbert A.
“for their development of direct methods for the determination of crystal structures”
USA
1985
Karle, Jerome
“for their development of direct methods for the determination of crystal structures”
USA
1982
Klug, Aaron
“for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nucleic acid-protein complexes”
Lithuania
1981
Hoffmann, Roald
“for their theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions”
Poland
1980
Berg, Paul
“for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant-DNA”
USA
1980
Gilbert, Walter
“for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids”
USA
1979
Brown, Herbert C.
“for their development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important reagents in organic synthesis”
Ukraine
1977
Prigogine, Ilya
“for his contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics, particularly the theory of dissipative structures”
Russia
1972
Anfinsen, Christian B.
“for his work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active conformation”
USA
1972
Stein, William H.
“for their contribution to the understanding of the connection between chemical structure and catalytic activity of the active center of the ribonuclease molecule”
USA
1962
Perutz, Max F.
“for their studies of the structures of globular proteins”
Austria
1961
Calvin, Melvin
“for his research on the carbon dioxide assimilation in plants”
USA
1943
de Hevesy, George
“for his work on the use of isotopes as tracers in the study of chemical processes”
Hungary
1918
Haber, Fritz
“for the synthesis of ammonia from its elements”
Germany
1915
Willstatter, Richard M.
“for his researches on plant pigments, especially chlorophyll”
Germany
1910
Wallach, Otto
“for his pioneer work in the field of alicyclic compounds”
Germany
1906
Moissan, Henri
“for his investigation and isolation of the element fluorine, and for the adoption in the service of science of the electric furnace called after him”
France
1905
von Baeyer, J. F. W. Adolf
“for his services in the advancement of organic chemistry and the chemical industry, through his work on organic dyes and hydroaromatic compounds”
Germany
I read somewhere that the next group of people who receive Nobel Prizes out of proportion to their demographics are the Scots.
bttt
Could be.
Murray mentioned this in the post and the notion that the “smartist” survived is belied by the facts. The massive genocide - which went from ancient times to contemporary - cannot be explained in any other way. It’s a composite of many things — jealousy for success, envy of superior intelligence, acquisition of wealth and social prominence, etc.
It’s hard to face in this PC society in which we live but — some people are just MORE DUMB than others! And some are SMARTER - Damn, too bad life isn’t fair!
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