The intelligence of the Ashkenazi Jews has been the subject of study and speculation within the fields of psychometry and evolutionary biology. Some psychometric studies have reported generally higher IQ's among Ashkenazi Jews than among the general population.
One highly publicised proposal by Gregory Cochran, Jason Hardy and Henry Harpending puts the psychometric findings into an evolutionary perspective, suggesting that the Ashkenazi collective history of segregation and persecution in medieval Europe could have prompted higher intelligence to emerge as a result of natural selection.
Certain psychometric studies have found that people who identified themselves as Jewish scored higher than average on various tests,[2][8] with estimates ranging from 3 to 12 points above the mean of other Caucasians (non-Jews), whose score is generally normalized to 100. These studies (see references) also indicate that this advantage is primarily in verbal and mathematical performance; spatial and visual-perceptual performance is average. The authors argue that these finding are supported by Ashkenazi academic achievement, noting that while, for example, in the United States, Ashkenazi Jews represent less than 2% of the population, they have won 27% of the US Nobel Prizes in science.[2]
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and I might point out the majority of the worlds chess championships.
Im curious. What do you think the average intelligence might be of the following groups:
Jews in Israel of European origin (Ash/Seph or other)
Mizrahi Jews
Palestinian Arabs
ARABS:
Lets compare them to other Arab states. Egypt is 83. Lebanon is 86. Morocco is 85. Iraq is 87. Qatar is 78. That seems to be the Arab range: 78-87. I havent seen any Arab countries score in the 90s and only Qatar is in the 70s. The average of the 5 Arab countries listed by IQ and the Wealth of Nations is 83.8, so the Palestinians are probably around 85. Whether its a couple points more or less is irrelevant, just a margin of error, and at the same time, I doubt that they are above 90 because no other Arab country is.
ASHKENAZIM
The pure-blooded Ashkenazim score probably the same as they do elsewhere 112-115.
Ashkenazi, Mizrahi, Arab IQ in Israel Ethnic Genome Project
No wonder you dont like the Jews Genes