Another possibility. Jewish people seem to have a less imagistic cognition than the general population which may mean they're more likely to think in words rather than pictures. The reliance on words over images in cognition may make it easier to reason abstractly.
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This is interesting (imagistic cognition), do you have any researchers/papers you could recommend. I am an Applied Linguists, and this is tangentially relevant to some of the stuff I look into.
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I believe it.The connection to basing their culture on literacy is compelling.
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Yep. Whatever Abraham, Issaac, Jacob touched they prospered. All went well until their descendants followed other gods
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My vote is they owe it to their mothers.
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Many of us also believe (however irritating it might be to others, I cannot say) that being born superior means we must make higher demands on ourselves to achieve more, & even overcome our very last limitations - if possible. Without such self imposed demands nothing would avail
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All analyses publicly available here: http://rpubs.com/Jonatan/jewish_pgs … …
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Hard to believe jewish selection for intelligence is older than 2000 years. Ancient jewish kingdoms were obviously less technically innovative than their neighbours and constantly dominated by them. I guess selection started when jews became a diaspora population.
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