Why is the IQ of Ashkenazi Jews so High?
Hank Pellissier
Ethical Technology
Posted: Jul 19, 2011
Ashkenazi Jews are smart. Shockingly brilliant, in general. Impressively greater in brain power than the bulk of the human population. How did they get that way?
Ashkenazi Jews, aka Ashkenazim, are the descendants of Jews originally from medieval Germany, and later, from throughout Eastern Europe. Approximately 80% of the Jews in the world today are Ashkenazim; the remainder are primarily Sephardic.
Their median IQ is calculated at 117 in From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice (2000), published by Cambridge University Press. This is 10 points higher than the generally-accepted IQ of their closest rivals—Northeast Asians—and almost 20% higher than the global average.
Other researchers who study the Ashkenazim have asserted an IQ number a trifle bit lower than 117, but all have agreed that these children of Abraham are on top of the IQ chart. Plus, contemplate this astounding tidbit: Ashkenazi “visual-spatial” test scores are typically lower than the norm; this means their abilities in the other two categories, language and math, are absolutely astounding.
…Check Mate: Chess historically has been a highly-favored activity among Ashkenazim; a 1905 magazine described it as the “Jewish National Game.” Almost 50% of Grandmasters have been Ashkenazi. The visual, organizational, and strategic skills required for chess build up the precuneus in the superior parietal lobe, and the caudate nucleus, a part of the basal ganglia in the subcortical region.
More of the extensive article here.
Cubans and Armenians are the best. Look at Capablanca and Petrosian.
Susan, iam dissapointed. How can you publish such bullshit on your site?
Susan,
Please be serious! IQ studies are…generalities are not.
(I’m member of several “high iq associations”)
BTW, the correlation between ELO and IQ is low. Why? That’s another problem (Please look at
http://users.skynet.be/albert.frank/chess_and_aptitudes.htm )
Its a ridiculous way of thinking.
IQ’s are for bean counters…Attaching any significance to it is lowering yourself. Nazis were great at this sort of nonsense.
I think the article was interesting.
What’s also interesting, is that there seems to be little or no correlation between your IQ and what you achieve in your life or career.
Here’s an example (Chris Langan, with a measured IQ of 190):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Langan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ak5Lr3qkW0
from the same article…
“I’m not asserting Ashkenazi cognitive specialness because I’m philo-semitic, or a Zionist, or pro-Israeli. I’m pointing it out because it is irrefutably true. People who can’t comprehend the easily understood data verifying high Ashkenazi IQ may not simply be anti-semitic; they must also be crippled in the math/logic zone of their inferior parietal cortex, with subsequent IQ in the ~85 range.”
To say that 117 is almoast 20% higher than 100 is plain stupid.
The same studies have also shown that blacks are the least intelligent in terms of IQ. But for some reason people don’t want to talk about that in today’s politically correct climate. Just consider how many black GMs there are in the US, for example: Can you count more than 5? AFAIK, there are one or zero black GMs in the US.
Anand must be an Azhkenazi Jew!
Fish in racial waters, don’t be surprised at what you catch….
High IQ doesn’t garantee career success. Chess is only one of the tools to train our logical thinking skills.
No wonder we create Hitler(s) when we write such article. Think about any other race writing such article. When a person from one race makes such racist statements, other people will oppose and it generates hate and at some point it produces Hitler. I do not support what Hitler did but Jews are equally responsible for creating Hitler too.