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by jojobas 1937 days ago
Well, Jews are 3x over-represented in US Congress and to a variable degree in other high-effort, high-reward areas such as law and yes, media management.

Unless you'd suspect a conspiracy, there has to be a genetic or a cultural reason for that and the problem with that is that any such reason could plausibly apply to Black Americans.
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pseudalopex 1937 days ago
Biodiversity implies it isn't cultural.
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jojobas 1937 days ago
Adoption studies also don't suggest that. Ashkenazi Jews seem to actually have a different brain model.
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pseudalopex 1937 days ago
Different brain model?

Just say genetic if you mean genetic.

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jojobas 1937 days ago
Yes, a genetically different brain model.

https://web.mit.edu/fustflum/documents/papers/AshkenaziIQ.jb...

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pseudalopex 1937 days ago
Brain model doesn't seem to be a common term. The linked paper uses the word model several times but not in a way that matches how used it.

I'm not going to debate the paper. For the benefit of anyone else reading here's a rebuttal.[1] I suggest reading both.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20131029200900/https://www.ncas.r...

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