Are Ashkenazi Jews the most intelligent ethnic group?

The only 'state' where they are the majority isn't successful without foreign aid. What does that tell you?

Never knew that.

I am not sure more than 1/5 of world's talented mathematicians, if we can tally all of them up, are Chinese/Koreans.

I wasn't talking about the world's top academics though, I meant at a lower level than that.

Try these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_intelligence


In the US anyway, several ethnic groups (among them Indians, Chinese, Koreans, Ashkenazi Jews) are overwhelmingly wealthy, very educated and extremely overrepresented in top acadaemia. However, whilst the majority of Indians and successful Chinese and Koreans came over as very educated individuals to fill top technical jobs, the majority of Jews (fleeing pogroms in Eastern Europe) immigrated to America overwhelmingly poor and uneducated and were by no means the most succcessful and accomplished individuals in their original communities. Yet Jews in America are overrepresented in seemingly every academic field in much higher ratios than any of the other "successful" ethnic groups. How would you explain that?

It also seems to me that Ashkenazi Jews are the most successful ethnic group both academically and financially in every country they seem to inhabit. I know that's certainly true in the US and UK. In case you're wondering, I'm a Tamil-American (parents both from Sri Lanka) but I live in a predominantly Jewish neighbourhood (and most of my friends are Jewish ).

Wouldn't it make sense for an overwhelmingly wealthy, successfull and highly intelligent group to also be highly overrepresented in politics?

This is a hilarious thread. If the OP asked whether black people were less intelligent people would start trying to come up with evolutionary reasons for them being less intelligent rather than social reasons for differences in achievement.

Black people aren't dumb, they are underachieving, and that's only because a large proportion of them live in deprived areas of cities, and the world in general, where schools aren't as good and it's uncool to study, and (in the case of some areas) drug dealing is an easier employment opportunity.

Haven;t read the whole thread but just wanted to say, the Jews have always relied on others to help them. They needed Britain with the Balfour dec. for the creation of Israel, and the Americans saved their ass in the Yom Kippur war (they would lost if Nixon hadn't bailed them out). They would have nothing if not for the predominantly WASPish countries of the USA and Britain.

This doesn't show us anything. Not only is your answer extremely flawed, it's also almost completely irrelevant. How does this address the question of Ashkenazi's intelligence?

Flawed how? And no idea; Ashkenazi maybe intelligent but they're clearly not the incredible super brains they're made out to be. They've traditionally (and still do) rely heavily on others. If they that intelligent, they'd be able to take care of themselves.

Find just one country which is able to survive completely independantly.

I didn't say black people are dumb.

I said that if this thread were about black people and intelligence you'd get ***** trying to use evolutionary reasons for the case being true.

No, clearly not.

They may have won x number of nobel prizes, but they certainly aren't that intelligent in general, I bet.

I'm sorry, I misread your comment. There's no need to swear though...

Are you an Ashkenazi? You seem pretty defensive. It's very controversial and probably untrue. Average IQ of 110 in a small amount of people isn't outstanding.