The myth of the Jewish high IQ (2023)

https://forbiddentexts.substack.com/p/the-myth-of-jewish-high-iq

by harperlee • 10 months ago

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dinck• 10 months ago

The comments on this are interesting to read, and pick apart the author's argument nicely.

Conclusion: Jewish high IQ isn't a myth.

like_any_other2• 10 months ago

Having read the article, I came away with the opposite impression. Directly measured IQ data is of laughably poor quality (literally 65 boys, all from the same school, in 1970, and the error bars in the study are larger than any measured difference), so no conclusions can be drawn from that. Meanwhile Israel (Hebrew) performance in PISA is middle of the road at best.

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.

CLPadvocate2• 10 months ago

Just FYI: PISA was never meant to test intelligence. And IQ in general is unscientific bullshit.

timpera• 10 months ago

It's a very rambling article, but the data is interesting.

The myth of the Jewish high IQ (2023)

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