An Analysis of Jewish IQ and Overrepresentation

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[–]cisheteroscumWhite Nationalist[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Some weaknesses of this analysis:

  • Assuming the SD of Jewish IQ is also 15. It could well be higher, which would increase the number of Jews with h high IQs. However, it could also be lower owing to Jews being highly geneticially homogeneous. This very same phenomenon suppresses the standard deviation of East Asians despite being higher than whites

  • I didn’t discuss g. I wanted to talk about how verbal IQ is highly g-loaded, and Jews core higher on verbal, but the post was getting too long and complicated to explain this. I’m sure it will come up in the comments.

  • Although IQ cannot explain overrepresentation alone, some aspects of Jewish personality (e.g., Big 5) could probably explain more. I know Cremieux talks about this, but its too much for me to cover ATM

  • Assuming IQ is normally distributed. It could be that IQ has heavier tails than a perfectly normal distribution, in which case the number of high-IQ Jews would also increase significantly

  • Jewish and White US population over time: We basically assumed these ratios have been constant throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. This is obviously not true, so Jews were even more ridiculously overrepresented in areas like Hollywood, the media etc. the farther back you go. However, if you wanted to start correcting for population differentials over time, you might also want to take the Flynn Effect into account, etc. Things can get complicated fast

[–]DestroyerOfSoy 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

verbal IQ is highly g-loaded

How does that compare to spacial reasoning? My question in short, how do we measure different "kinds" of intelligence like Verbal, Spacial Reasoning, Emotional, and compare it to g-factor? I'm guessing the common factor is heritability influenced by test construction. The reason being I think these things are all very heritable to varying degrees based on definitions and how tests are constructed but still very useful nonetheless and strive for best categorization. It helps to see how scores correlate to life outcomes. I see this is harder when defining things like "Emotional Intelligence". Correct me if I'm wrong.

[–]cisheteroscumWhite Nationalist[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Different kinds of tests measure different cognitive skills. G-loadedness depends on how much a given test's scores correlate with scores on other tests

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)#Cognitive_ability_testing

these correlations indicate an underlying "general factor" of intelligence. The g-factor also accounts for almost all of the predictive power of IQ tests

Jews score particularly high on verbal bit fairly average on spatial intelligence. This is probably a partial reason why they are so prominent in "social sciences" but not so much in engineering

[–]DestroyerOfSoy 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

You're damn fast. Couldn't even reword my hap-hazard question. Thanks.

[–]cisheteroscumWhite Nationalist[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Haha np. Lurking while I should be working