The Myth of the Jewish High IQ (2023)
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The article challenges the notion that Jewish people have a higher average IQ, sparking discussion on the origins and implications of this stereotype.
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Conclusion: Jewish high IQ isn't a myth.
The author thinks so to:
So now we are at the other end of the rabbit hole, have we come out the other side with the slam-dunk data which Peterson and Pinker present as fact? It’s plain that we have not. Their claim is something like ‘Jews are overrepresented in American positions of power and influence because of their high IQ’ but a more accurate articulation of this argument would be something like ‘Jews are overrepresented in American positions of power and influence because 65 fifteen-year-old boys scored well on a quick test in 1970 and 57 monolingual Jewish children in 1959 scored well on a Stanford Binet Test.’ The argument is never presented that way. Their argument has come out of this process greatly damaged.
Regardless of intention, it is a test where intelligence helps you perform.
> IQ in general is unscientific bullshit
You probably mean to say some specific interpretation of IQ scores is unscientific. I disagree that it's entirely useless, but regardless, if you truly believe that, you have to apply it always - both when it does, and doesn't, show what you want.
You can't, e.g., claim that IQ is bullshit, and also that Jews are overrepresented in influential positions because of their high IQ.
PISA is just testing if you learned some set of information at specific point in time. It has basically nothing to do with intelligence - it's a test of standard compliance.
> You probably mean to say some specific interpretation of IQ scores is unscientific.
No - I mean that IQ is NOT MEASURING HUMAN INTELLIGENCE AT ALL. It may have some correlation with some aspects of intelligence, or maybe rather have some correlation with human's performance in specific situations which some other people may consider as "acting intelligently", but it's not guaranteed to be the case. So maybe it's rather some kind of an indicator of the current mental and body fitness (oxygen level, nutrition, sleep / exhaustion, focus, or whatsoever), but no more.
> You can't, e.g., claim that IQ is bullshit, and also that Jews are overrepresented in influential positions because of their high IQ.
which i never did in my entire life.