https://www.aei.org/articles/the-2011-nobel-prize-and-the-debate-over-jewish-iq/

Extravagant success of Ashkenazi #Jews in wide range of intellectual domains serves as solid refutation to already exhausted #woke narrative of oppression, victimhood, & intersectionality. Why?/1

#IQ #psychology #intelligenceresearch #groupdifferences

"In the first half of the 20th century, despite pervasive and continuing social discrimination against Jews throughout the Western world, despite the retraction of legal rights, and despite the Holocaust, Jews won 14 % of Nobel Prizes in literature, chemistry, physics..."/2

"..., and medicine/physiology. In the second half of the 20th century, when Nobel Prizes began to be awarded to people from all over the world, that figure rose to 29 %. So far, in the 21st century, it has been 32 %. Jews constitute ~0.2 % of the world’s population."/3

"Ashkenazi Jews are just as successful as their tested IQ would predict, and they are hugely overrepresented in occupations and fields with the highest cognitive demands.”/4

Ashkenazi Jews w/ IQ over 145 outnumber the rest of whites ~11:1 per population numbers.

"On the extremes of exceptional intelligence, from which Nobel laureate scientists & chess champions emerge, Jewish representation is much higher. Indeed, as the models predict, Jews are present in ever-greater disproportion the further one looks in the rarified IQs above 150."/5

"1954 IQ test in New York City’s public schools used to discover the 28 students in the school system with IQs over 170. Twenty-four of these students were Jews."/6

One year high-school freshmen in in the SMPY who had tested in the top 99,99th percentile (math): ~50 % were Jews.

"The vast majority of Jewish households, both in the United States and in Israel, are secular and not especially different from those of their gentile neighbors in similar socio-economic conditions."/7

Genius level IQ is never a result of environmental push: genes set potential.

"Orthodox Jewish Nobel laureates like Robert Aumann, who tackled the Talmud in yeshiva studies in his youth, are the exceptions. Moreover, the evidence for environmental factors producing an outcome as distinct as this is weak."/8

"Magic recipe" would've been copied by others.

“"There is scarcely any support in the literature,” write Cochran, et al., “for social effects like home environment on IQ.” Pinker supports their conclusion: “Siblings reared together are no more correlated in IQ than siblings who were separated at birth..."/9

"...and adopted siblings are not correlated at all. Growing up in a given home within a culture seems to leave no lasting stamp on intelligence." Murray: "Even the very best home environments add only a few points, if that, to a merely okay environment.""/10

Scientific consensus

"non-Ashkenazi Jews do not show high average IQ scores, and are not disproportionately represented in cognitively demanding fields"/11

One of the many lines of converging evidence not only pointing to but underlining the genetic evolutionary explanation for their high avg IQ.

"With contemporary Jews growing up in fairly typical middle class American homes, the hereditary hypothesis must play a significant role."/12

This would be widely accepted for any non-politiziced topic. Group differences in IQ, let alone genetic? Taboo (but the truth).

Bottom line:

Extravagant intellectual achievements of Ashkenazi Jews come down to polygenic factors as personality & cognitive traits are highly heritable.

Their avg IQ advantage is most likely ~100 % genetic in causation.

Thank you for reading

P.S. The topic is important. Conspiracies, nepotism, magiclike cultural factors are falsified explanations & they only cause harm anyways. It's inevitable that in non-oppressive meritocracy where intelligence is rewarded Jews will do best especially at the zenith of achievement.