I think this is quite accurate.
The Big cities are all blue areas.
Posted on 12/28/2019 7:56:45 AM PST by yesthatjallen
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Sarah Bernhardt and Franz Kafka; Albert Einstein and Rosalind Franklin; Benjamin Disraeli and (sigh) Karl Marx — how is it that a people who never amounted even to one-third of 1 percent of the world’s population contributed so seminally to so many of its most pathbreaking ideas and innovations?
The common answer is that Jews are, or tend to be, smart. When it comes to Ashkenazi Jews, it’s true. “Ashkenazi Jews have the highest average I.Q. of any ethnic group for which there are reliable data,” noted one 2005 paper. “During the 20th century, they made up about 3 percent of the U.S. population but won 27 percent of the U.S. Nobel science prizes and 25 percent of the ACM Turing awards. They account for more than half of world chess champions.”
But the “Jews are smart” explanation obscures more than it illuminates. Aside from the perennial nature-or-nurture question of why so many Ashkenazi Jews have higher I.Q.s, there is the more difficult question of why that intelligence was so often matched by such bracing originality and high-minded purpose.
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But as the story of the Lithuanian rabbi suggests, Jewish genius operates differently. It is prone to question the premise and rethink the concept; to ask why (or why not?) as often as how; to see the absurd in the mundane and the sublime in the absurd. Ashkenazi Jews might have a marginal advantage over their gentile peers when it comes to thinking better. Where their advantage more often lies is in thinking different.
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I think this is quite accurate.
The Big cities are all blue areas.
Aren’t observant Jews required to learn and write the Hebrew language? Like the Orientals their language is closer to drawing than writing. The method of reading and writing these characters seem to me to be the reason for high intelligence.
“Eye spel gud bcuz eye hav spelchekr.”
Mi two.
I wish I could go back in time and see who is Ashkenazi.
My “enemy” competition for the next chair in high school band, the brilliant piano-playing sarcastic boyfriend of a friend’s sister, a professor in school, who could have been working anywhere making insane money, but who instead took me and other dull, disinterested students from zero to understanding Boolean algebra and how to thevenize circuits in a semester... Ashkenazi, I’lll bet.
Amazing people I was fortunate enough to have met and I still have them in my head for comparison.
I think of them when I read about God’s chosen in Scriptures.
Nurture rather than Nature (environment over genetics...)
Cultural aspects ...
‘Abstract Science’ pursued over ‘Getting Rich’ (the factor of the society the Jews are forced to live in because they have been a historic minority with limits imposed on opportunities)
There are ‘Socialists’ in Israel is the easy counter to ‘all jews are smarter’
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Maybe this article will be published somewhere else. I can’t stand the “New York Times.”
but its good to have money growing up, knowing that you will be able to afford any tutors, and go to any college you want simply because you can afford to...
at least in America, your class status pays wonders.....
there is such a big presence of Jews at Harvard and since they award a large number of acceptances to alumni's children, its a wealth merry go round....and lets face it, Harvard is Harvard for one single important reason...CONNECTIONS.....
so I'll grant that some people have higher IQs but part of that is being in the right path....money and the Ivy league....
I had the opportunity of watching two different cultures manage their children at the same time.
Attended an AMZ zion Black church for a while. the children were forced to sit ramrod straight and not figit throughout the 2 to three hour service. If they acted out, they were taken out, beaten and returned to their seats.
these children learned to be quiet and compliant at home and raise hell in other places like school.
Watched a Jewish Community Center After school program for middle schoolers. These kids came into the program in high spirits, never really settled down to do the task at hand, which was secondary to them socializing and blowing off steam.
These children were quiet and compliant publicly and were appropriately high spirited when permitted.
...and good families.
That and parochial school nuns. Fish on Friday and a dedicated nun are not the norm anymore but Catholics from that era are still good Supreme Court material.
ONE decent smartie among 6 this moron chose? WTH
Well no matter. At least they became so.
My funny story—I hung out with a Jewish guy who was dating a non-Jewish girl. His parents did not know—he kept it a secret.
One day he bought a gift for his girl-friend, wrapped it and put a card on it, and stupidly left it at home.
His mother found out, screamed at him, and tore the gift to shreds.
Oy vey!
Yup. Fish with the right hand, ruler to the left hand.
Makes Catholic kids the best in the land.
And most rebellious.
22 standard letters, four of which have a different form at the end of a word than at the beginning and middle. There is a calligraphy, and in fact I write that calligraphy for a living (Torah scrolls, mezuzot, etc.). But there is also a calligraphic way of writing Latin lettering as well. Nothing at all like Oriental languages. Arabic writing is more complex and ornate than Hebrew.
Five letters, I mean, with a different final form.
I once heard a theory that the priests of Christianity were assembled from the brightest young men, who then could never marry, whereas the Jews always encouraged the most promising sons to become rabbis, and yet expected them to marry. So after many generations, the descendants of rabbis had more intelligent boys among them, than did the descendants of Christians.
It’s a great theory but most likely the answer is simpler. A culture that prizes and encourages learning, reaps an excellent harvest. Where learned men and women are honored, there will be more of them.
“I happen to think that nurture or upbringing is more important because that is what results in character and personality.”
I’m not so sure that “nurture” is more important.
It could be argued to be more important in that the innate genetic intelligence goes unused for great things without the proper nurture.
But the proper nurture won’t make a genius out of non-genius.
That’s how I see it but nothing is etched in stone.
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