Re: Yet another Jefferson quote
- From: "Richard Dell" <rfdell@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 31 Mar 2006 08:13:04 -0800
drahcir wrote:
I have a big smile right now. 1boy, you sound just like, well, a boy.
Regarding my intelligence, your statement reflects only on your
perceptive abilities, not on me. Regarding Muslims and Jews, you need
to be more specific than "inferior". Precisely what do you mean? do you
mean every muslim is inferior to every jew? In this case I would
protest. But if you mean that jews contribute more to the world in
every area of goodness and worth than muslims per capita, I would
agree, muslims are inferior to jews, no question. Further, I would say
that the reason for this cannot be genetic, it must be due to
differences in religion.
There is actually evidence of higher than average intelligence among
Ashkenazi Jews.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18925421.300.html
(subscription required)
"Last year, Cochran and his colleague Henry Harpending published a
paper claiming that natural selection has increased the intelligence of
Ashkenazi Jews in the past 1000 years (Journal of Biosocial Science,
vol 37, p 1). Intelligence is notoriously difficult to measure, but
this ethnic group scores between 12 and 15 points higher than average
on IQ tests. Cochran and Harpending point out that from about AD 800 to
1700, Ashkenazim were forbidden to work in common trades and tended to
make a living from more intellectual pursuits such as finance. The most
successful had the most offspring and so there was natural selection
for intelligence. They say they have genetic evidence to back them up,
though the details have yet to be published."
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