Famous Jewish Sports Legends: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoACIIz33II
That is what I always think of when someone mentions the book "Javascript: The Good Parts".
Jewish Nobel Laureates
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#22Very impressive
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#23While this is an interesting statistic, it can be interpreted in many ways, not all of which are meaningful. Statistically, more men have won Nobel prizes than women (by a large margin). Most Nobel laureates are Caucasian. Most are from the western hemisphere. Other than gender, it may be interpreted to mean that if a group which makes a small fraction of the total world population, they must be better/smarter. It's…
> Statistically, more men have won Nobel prizes than women (by a large margin). Most Nobel laureates are Caucasian. Most are from the western hemisphere. Other than gender, it may be interpreted to mean that if a group which makes a small fraction of the total world population, they must be better/smarter.
Consider your magnitudes though.
For example, men win
0.961/0.5 = 1.9
times the Nobel Prizes you would expect based on representation alone, whereas Jews win
0.202/0.002 = 101
times the Nobel Prizes you would expect based on representation alone.
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#24By the way, has anyone come up with a possible explanation for the seemingly disproportionate number of Jewish laureates and smart people in general? Do Jews have some tradition or belief that's helpful in this?
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#25Interestingly all Abrahamic religions begin with a warning about the tree of knowledge...
I still can't believe what a fucked up parable that is.
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#26How do you decide who's noble and who's not?
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#28By the way, has anyone come up with a possible explanation for the seemingly disproportionate number of Jewish laureates and smart people in general? Do Jews have some tradition or belief that's helpful in this?
Average IQ of 115 among the Ashkenazim. That's why. It's not really that interesting, but it enrages almost everyone who hears it. 115 isn't that smart, but it works out that they have a huge disproportion of members in the more important 145+ IQ range. Anyway, you'll find that Jews have similar numbers in such things as Fields medals, Senate seats, the Forbes 400, etc, all at about 15-25 percent of the total.
Sorry, you're not allowed to assign average IQs to racial groups anymore. Not since black Americans were found to be lower than whites. You have to attribute the anomalous test scores to the biases in the tests to be politically correct.
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#29The Jewish culture has valued certain types of intelligence for centuries, and probably as a result their average IQ is measurably higher due to selection effects. If you assume it is outliers on the IQ spectrum that will win the prize, this isn't surprising at all.
I'd guess that a big reason why people of the Jewish faith have been persecuted over the centuries is that because of their IQ advantage they gain more wealth than other peoples they may be around. It is fascinating.
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#30I came across this the other day: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jewish_intelligence