Intelligence of Jews and of Jewish Israelis
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1. Jewish IQ
(from http://users.tpg.com.au/jonjayra/geneiq.html)I have had an interesting correspondence with
Richard Lynn about Israeli IQ. He notes that Israelis of European origin (Ashkenazim) have an average IQ of about the European norm (100) whereas Israelis from the Arab lands (Sephardim) have the quite low average IQ of 88.The above was written by J. J. Ray, who describes himself: As psychometrics is my academic specialty, however, I have always taken an interest in studies of IQ and I have even summarized some of the relevant evidence and issues in the academic literature. See: Ray, J.J. (1972) Are all races equally intelligent? Or: When is knowledge knowledge? J. Human Relations 20, 71-75.
Comment from btrogman@laposte.net on the above statement of J.J. Ray:
you have made a mistake
sepharadim are nor arabic jews , they are spanish,
sepharad=spain in hebrew .
Sephard people have an average iq of 99 like spanish and was very rich people.They come to marocco due to the Inquisition.
mizrahim are the arabic jews and have an average iq of 90
Van Sloan comments on the large difference between Ashkenazi IQ in the USA (below) vs Ashkenazi IQ in Israel:
Perhaps the higher Ashkenazi IQ in the United States is due to the self selection of brighter Jews being able to escape the Nazi Holocaust in Europe.
2.
Diversity's Losers - Part II - The Universities (from http://home.ddc.net/ygg/ms/ms-45.htm)Jews have an average IQ that is .84 standard deviations above that of white gentiles. The average for white gentiles is 100. For Jews it is 112. Based on this higher average, we would expect them to be represented at a rate of 4 to 5 times their share of the population at the IQ range of 140, which populates Harvard. That means 10 to 12% of the seats, not 27%.
TOP 15 NATIONAL UNIVERSITIES
SCHOOL |
ENROLLMENT |
%WHITE |
#WHITE |
#JEWS |
J-% |
#W-GEN |
W-GEN% |
YALE |
10000 |
67 |
6700 |
3000 |
30 |
3700 |
37 |
PRINCETON |
5700 |
70 |
3990 |
800 |
14 |
3190 |
56 |
HARVARD |
16700 |
45 |
7515 |
4500 |
27 |
3015 |
18 |
DUKE |
9500 |
72 |
6840 |
1500 |
16 |
5340 |
56 |
MIT |
9800 |
48 |
4704 |
875 |
09 |
3829 |
39 |
STANFORD |
14000 |
50 |
7000 |
2000 |
14 |
5000 |
36 |
DARTMOUTH |
5270 |
57 |
3004 |
500 |
09 |
2504 |
47 |
BROWN |
7100 |
67 |
4757 |
1600 |
23 |
3157 |
44 |
CALTECH |
2050 |
56 |
1148 |
100 |
05 |
1048 |
51 |
NORTHWESTERN |
10000 |
68 |
6800 |
2000 |
20 |
4800 |
48 |
COLUMBIA |
19000 |
58 |
11020 |
6000 |
32 |
5020 |
26 |
CHICAGO |
8500 |
60 |
5100 |
1350 |
16 |
3750 |
44 |
PENN |
22800 |
60 |
13680 |
7000 |
31 |
6680 |
29 |
CORNELL |
18500 |
67 |
12395 |
3000 |
16 |
9395 |
51 |
HOPKINS |
4400 |
65 |
2860 |
800 |
18 |
2060 |
47 |
TOTALS |
163320 |
|
97513 |
35025 |
21 |
62488 |
38 |
Nationally, blacks constitute 12% of our population, hispanics 9% and asians 3%. Whites are 75% of the population. Jews comprise 2.4% of the population, so non-hispanic white gentiles make up 73% of the total.
3.
ASSESSING THE ASHKENAZIC IQ (from http://www.lagriffedulion.f2s.com/ashkenaz.htm)Ashkenazim have earned 27% of the Nobel Prizes awarded to Americans, 25% of ACM Turing Awards, and 26% of the Fields Medals. They account for more than half the world chess champions. Ashkenazic Jews, 2 percent of the US population, make up 30% of elite-college faculty, 30% of Supreme Court law clerks, and 27% of Ivy Leaguers... I have seen assessments of the mean Ashkenazic IQ from 107 to 117..We assess the mean Ashkenazic IQ to be 116. And from the frequency of Ashkenazic Fields medallists, we infer an Ashkenazic "math IQ" of 111.
Another
summary of various IQ studies places very high numbers on the intelligence of Ashkenazi Jews, particularly in verbal skills:
Group |
Avg. IQ |
Spatial |
Verbal |
Ashkenazi Jews |
1101-1181 |
982-1053 |
1172-1253; |
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