When IQ tests were first developed and applied on a wide scale in the 1920s, it was found that newly arrived East European Jews and their children did poorly on the tests. This led to wide concern that genetics meant had left Jews were intellectually impaired. Yet within a generation, Harvard and the rest of the Ivy league imposed quotas limiting the admission of Jews. Now, similar quotas are covertly applied to limit the numbers of Chinese students and to protect the admission preference for the children of graduates and major donors. Whatever the influence of genetics on intelligence may be, surely IQ tests also measure something else that is even more important: the determination to excel in school.
I’d like to see proof that Jews did poorly on IQ tests in the early 20th century
Jews even in pales and other pseudo reservations did quite well and excelled in all manner of sciences and business
In Hungary and Poland and Austria and Germany and England and France
I’m suspect of that proffer
I would note that Ashkhenazim Jews do indeed test well on IQ tests but Sephardic and Mizrahi and Oriental Jews don’t test any higher than most caucazoidal means
Chinese IQ tests depend wholly on which Chinese you’re testing same as testing white Americans or black Americans where large deviation exists
This area of so called science is so political that study after study exists to try to convince people to simply ignore what they experience their entire lives
Ultimately it feeds the holy grail of dismissing any and all white accomplishments and western civilization as a fluke or theft from non whites
It’s just all bullshit
Anyone who has any empirical logic left can easily tell who prospers and reasons and who lags and is prone to emotive physicality in the place of thought out response
Smart people did not bludgeon and chop up 1,000,000 Tutsi
I’ve spent a third of my life in the developing world....even do gooders in NGO capacity get confronted with realities that shatter their Pollyanna beliefs about race and intelligence