British researcher claims 'Jews smarter, it's genetic'

YNet News ^ | April 11, 2007

[Cecily]

The YNet readers make exceptions for Israeli politicians and YNet itself, though. Their comments are funny.

[camle]

hoo boigh! this is a-gonna fan the fires of the ME!

[Dahoser]

Quick, somebody call Micheal Ray Richardson’s agent.

[The Blitherer]

This guy better hire himself some bodyguards, quick!

[AU72]

Least he didn’t call them “a bunch of yarmulke-headed heebs”.

[DogBarkTree]

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?

[untenured]

YNet, at least, is not intelligent enough to realize that Charles Murray is American, not British.

[2banana]

If Jews are so smart - why do they vote 70%+ for democrats...

[Quix]

No surprise for serious students of Scripture.

[socrates_shoe]

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

[Zionist Conspirator]

Their political affiliations certainly don’t show it.

[taxed2death]

“If Jews are so smart - why do they vote 70%+ for democrats...”

Wow. you nailed it. Those 12 words just blew that theory right outta the ballpark.

[sageb1]

“
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

[3AngelaD]

"Tony Judt, a British-Jewish historian based at New York University, is scathing about Murray’s theory. “My own, statistically naive, impression these days is that intelligence, ignorance and bigotry are distributed among Jews in proportions comparable to their presence in society as a whole,” he told the Sunday Times.

But there is always someone who dislikes his own family enough to diss it in public.

[Cecily]

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.

[Cecily]

Correction - I misread Murray’s comment about Scotland.

[Hank Kerchief]

“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

[goldstategop]

The brightest Jew of all time was Moses. The second brightest Jew of all time was Rabbi Judah HaNasi. The third brightest Jew of all time was Rashi. Moses gave the world the Torah. Rabbi Judah gave the world the Oral Torah. And Rashi gave the world the key to understanding both with his unrivaled commentaries into their meaning. Without these three Jews, there would be no Judaism today.

"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

[Condor 63]

You beat me to it.

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.

[Teacher317]

Yeah, that’ll help the global debates. /sarc>