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by vajrabum 3177 days ago
I guess they have "reverse discrimination" in handing out prizes for intellectual contributions too. From Wikipedia: "While only about 2% of the U.S. population is of full Jewish descent,[1] 27% of United States Nobel prize winners in the 20th century,[1][2] 25% of Fields Medal winners, 25% of ACM Turing Award winners,[1] 9 out of the 19 world chess champions, and a quarter of Westinghouse Science Talent Search winners have either full or partial Jewish ancestry."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jewish_intelligence

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That 2% figure includes full Jews. But what percentage of the population has partial Jewish ancestry?