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Ashkenazi Jewish intelligence, often colloquially referred to as "Jewish genius", [1] [2] is the stereotype [3] that Ashkenazi Jews tend to have a higher intelligence than other ethnic groups. Background
The ethics of research on race and intelligence has long been a subject of debate: in a 1996 report of the American Psychological Association; [60] in guidelines proposed by Gray and Thompson and by Hunt and Carlson; [58] [183] and in two editorials in Nature in 2009 by Steven Rose and by Stephen J. Ceci and Wendy M. Williams.
A section in IQ and human intelligence (1998) by Nicholas Mackintosh discussed ethnic groups and Race and intelligence: separating science from myth (2002) edited by Jefferson Fish presented further commentary on The Bell Curve by anthropologists, psychologists, sociologists, historians, biologists and statisticians. [154]
Though the question is undecided, some trace the start of a biological interpretation of Jewish origins back as far as the Spanish Inquisition. [12] A tradition of thought and ethnography premised on a hierarchy of racial distinctions, though in retrospect known to be a pseudoscience, was deeply entrenched, indeed ubiquitous, among Western scholars by the early twentieth century. [13]
Jewish identity underwent a significant shift in the centuries that followed the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE. The initial conception of the Jews as an ethnos, albeit one with a distinctive religious culture, gradually shifted to that of a religious community that also identified as a nation. [11]
As many as 900,000 Jewish refugees fled or were violently expelled from Muslim-majority countries in the 20 th century (most in 1948 with the creation of the Jewish State) and 650,000 refugees ...
The Nazis viewed Jews not just as a race but as an inferior and dangerous one. And they tried to eliminate Jews on precisely those grounds.
In the youngest age (25-34) group surveyed, Jews averaged 13.8 years of schooling, the unaffiliated group averaged 10.3 years of schooling, Christians averaged 9.9 years of schooling, Buddhists averaged 9.7 years of schooling, Hindus averaged 7.1 years of schooling, and Muslims averaged 6.7 years of schooling. 61% of Jews, 20% of Christians, 16 ...