Die iemand was ik.Bennogr schreef:Zoals iemand al eerder opmerkte: het is geen toeval dat de meeste Nobelprijzen door in de VS werkende wetenschappers worden gewonnen (en dat heeft niets met Joden te maken!)
En mag ik even wat duiden ivm met de Joden, meer bepaald dan zelfs nog de Ashkenazi Joden (een bepaalde ethnische groep binnen de Joden):
Deze Ashkenazi hebben, van alle etnische groepen op de wereld, het hoogste gemiddelde IQ.
"This fact has social significance because IQ (as measured by IQ tests)
is the best predictor we have of success in academic subjects and most jobs.
Ashkenazi Jews are just as successful as their tested IQ would
predict, and they are hugely overrepresented in occupations and fields
with the highest cognitive demands. During the 20th century, they made
up about 3% of the US population but won 27% of the US Nobel science
prizes and 25% of the ACM Turing awards. They account for more than half of world chess champions.
While the mean IQ difference between Ashkenazi and other northern
Europeans may not seem large, such a small difference maps to a large
difference in the proportion of the population with very high IQs
(Crow, 2002). For example if the mean Ashkenazi IQ is 110 and the
standard deviation is 15, then the number of northern Europeans with
IQs greater than 140 should be 4 per thousand while 23 per thousand
Ashkenazim should exceed the same threshold, a six fold difference.
[...]
Ashkenazi Jews have an unusual ability profile as well as higher than
average IQ. They have high verbal and mathematical scores, while their
visuospatial abilities are typically somewhat lower, by about one half
a standard deviation, than the European average (Levinson, 1977;
Levinson and Block, 1977). Han Eysenck (Eysenck, 1995) noted "The
correlation between verbal and performance tests is about 0.77 in the
general population, but only 0.31 among Jewish children.
Differences of 10-20 points have been found in
samples of Jewish children; there is no other group that shows
anything like this size difference." The Ashkenazi pattern of success
is what one would expect from this ability distribution-great success
in mathematics and literature, more typical results in
representational painting, sculpture, and architecture."
bron: http://homepage.mac.com/harpend/.Public ... socsci.pdf
, maar dat is net hetzelfde als met een persoon. 
