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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Apr 19

    In this old article, I explain the (still unproven) hypothesis that Jews have higher average intelligence (the non-conspiratorial alternative explanation of why Jews are so overrepresented in many professions).https://newrepublic.com/article/77727/groups-and-genes …

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      2. Kevin MacDonald‏ @TOOEdit Apr 19
        Replying to @sapinker

        I agree about Jewish IQ and have written extensively about it. But that can't explain the phenomena reviewed in The Culture of Critique (e.g. ethnic networking) and relative lack of involvement of Jewish intellectuals in populism, paleoconseravism. See https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324612032_SECOND_REPLY_TO_NATHAN_COFNAS_REVISION_OF_APRIL_19_2018 …

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      3. Kevin MacDonald‏ @TOOEdit Apr 19
        Replying to @TOOEdit @sapinker

        Jewish IQ can't even explain Jewish overrepresentation at elite universities. http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2012/12/13/ron-unz-on-the-illusory-american-meritocracy/ … http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2010/07/16/kevin-macdonald-jewish-overrepresentation-at-elite-universities-explained/ … Nor can it explain the adversarial stance of the main Jewish intellectual movements compared, say, to the Overseas Chinese, another high-IQ group.

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      2. Deus Voltage‏ @ScleroticNeuro1 Apr 19
        Replying to @sapinker

        Absolutely breathtaking that Jews are allowed to use group differences in I.Q. to defend their overrepresentation in elite jobs while Whites are called "racist pseudoscientists" if they do the same. Just how long do you think this bizarro world will last?

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      3. Arthur Trent‏ @ArthurTrent15 Apr 20
        Replying to @ScleroticNeuro1 @sapinker

        This is The Nub. A few people have tentatively raised this but as far as I can see no one with Stephen's well earned status. Still the talk is of "White Privilege", never "Jewish privilege", and White's preserve a "supremacist culture", but not Jews. It is literally absurd.

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      1. Paul Clark‏ @paulclark42GB Apr 19
        Replying to @sapinker

        I discuss the same hypothesis in my review of The 10,000 Year Explosion, which stresses the importance of racial differences and argues for the average superior intelligence of Ashkenazi Jewshttps://paulclark42.wordpress.com/paulclark42-comments-and-reviews/review-of-the-10000-year-explosion/ …

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      2. pusencer‏ @pusencer Apr 20
        Replying to @sapinker

        There seems to be more to the puzzle than what is written here. Asians have high IQs but, don’t dominate intellectual circles or business to the same degree and ethnic Armenians are over-represented in Hess same areas relative to population and IQ testing

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      3. pusencer‏ @pusencer Apr 20
        Replying to @pusencer @sapinker

        “Hess?” How does apple get that out of ‘the?’ Ugh

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      2. Apache  🌲  🏴‏ @EuropeanApache Apr 19
        Replying to @sapinker

        Asians are also said to have a slightly higher average IQ and are a very small percentage of the US population, like Jews. Why haven’t they taken over the media, Hollywood, banking, foreign policy and academia? Why aren’t they undermining their host nation?

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      3. Jared Holt's Roommate‏ @TheJelqingGamer Apr 19
        Replying to @EuropeanApache @sapinker

        Different types of IQ. Verbal IQ is what helps you excel in academia and broadcasting. Asians arent particularly gifted in that area.

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      2. Onur Demir‏ @vonkrebs111 Apr 19
        Replying to @sapinker

        If Marx and Freud were born in Iraq instead of Germany,Nobody could hear their names,Its not genes but sociology,history and economics.

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      3. Lazy Train‏ @FantomColeman Apr 19
        Replying to @vonkrebs111 @sapinker

        Why can't it be both?

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      1. Mary‏ @MaryMontdor Apr 19
        Replying to @sapinker

        “for generations in the shtetl, the brightest yeshiva boy was betrothed to the daughter of the richest man” (s. The Destruction of Kreshev”, by I. B. Singer)

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      2. EpocheHusserl‏ @Hedgefundphil Apr 19
        Replying to @sapinker

        @charlesmurray @Steve_Sailer Jews are still over-represented even if you take IQ into consideration

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      3. Lazy Train‏ @FantomColeman Apr 19
        Replying to @Hedgefundphil @sapinker and

        IQ + connections.

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      2. JK Chantler‏ @chantler_jaki Apr 19
        Replying to @sapinker

        The Jewish people since forever have put a higher premium on learning than outdoor pursuits - like jousting(!) in olden days, rugby, football today. Their over-representation in professions and not sports relates to this gentle parental nudging from birth IMO

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      2. Ricky Peter Newins‏ @RickyPNewins Apr 19
        Replying to @sapinker

        Clearly IQ alone, even if higher on average, cannot account for such overrepresentation. Surely the explanation leans more towards culture. Dealing with something like the protestant work ethic in steroids!😂

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      3. Jacques Towakí‏ @JaquesTowaki1 Apr 19
        Replying to @RickyPNewins @sapinker

        I've said that before--besides genetic factors, there must be cultural factors so that a genetic group, let's say, with a genetic predisposition for high IQ can have a culture which smothers that potential & w/o that predisposition can be nurtured in a culture which...

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      4. Jacques Towakí‏ @JaquesTowaki1 Apr 19
        Replying to @JaquesTowaki1 @RickyPNewins @sapinker

        leads given individuals to reach beyond their potential, possibly raising the average IQ of the group over time... Just my intuitive ramblings, I suppose...🤔

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      5. Ricky Peter Newins‏ @RickyPNewins Apr 20
        Replying to @JaquesTowaki1 @sapinker

        Your intuitive ramblings mirror exactly my own.

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