Thursday, November 1, 2007

WHY ARE JEWS SO SMART?

Jewish I.Q. (Slate)
Is DNA what makes Jews so smart?

  • The average IQ of Ashkenazi Jews is 107 to 115, well above the human average of 100.
  • Some scholars now hypothesize that the genes that make Jews smart also give some of them nasty diseases such as Tay-Sachs.
  • Supposedly, Jews are deficient in visio-spatial skills, possibly because their brains allot extra space for verbal intelligence. That might explain the average Ashkenazi Jewish score of 122 on verbal IQ tests.

See also: JEWISH GENIUS

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