As a follow up to my last video, where many tried to excuse the level of Jewish over-representation on Joe Rogan's podcast by claiming they are simply more intelligent.
0:00 - Intro
1:12 - Argument Breakdown
3:01 - Scientific Studies
3:25 - Backman (1972)
4:31 - Levinson (1957)
5:46 - Lynn (2003)
8:08 - MacDonald
9:40 - Storfer (1990)
12:49 - Herrnstein + Murray
13:08 - Studies Conclusion
13:30 - Explanations for High IQ
13:40 - The Nurture Argument
14:41 - Talmudic Explanation
16:21 - Oppression Explanation
19:35 - How IQ works
21:32 - Nobel Prizes
23:10 - Chess
24:23 - Misc Points
26:51 - Israeli IQ
28:32 - Faked Studies Possibility
29:39 - Even if Claims are True
31:58 - Conclusion
SOURCES CITED:
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[2]: Levinson, B. M. (1957). The intelligence of applicants for admission to Jewish day schools.
[3]: Richard Lynn (2003), The Intelligence of American Jews, Personality and Individual Differences.
[4]: MacDonald, K. B. (2002). A people that shall dwell alone: Judaism as a group evolutionary strategy, with Diaspora Peoples. Writers Club Press.
[5]: Storfer, M. D. (1990). Intelligence and giftedness: The contributions of heredity and early environment. Jossey-Bass.
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[11]:
https://math.stackexchange.com/questi... (*Not citing the wikipedia page. This is not a scholarly paper, but offers a great easy to understand explanation of how test scores are normalized for IQ.)
[12]:
Top 10 Chess Grandmaster Hikaru takes... - GM Nakamura scores a 102 on an IQ test. Sure this is just an online test, but they do ask questions which are similar to the more "official" IQ tests out there. Surely this is enough to give us an idea of what his "true IQ" might be. I am not taking away anything from Nakamura, who is great, I'm only showing the flaw in the argument that success in chess implies high IQ.
[13]: Transcript of an interview which can be found here [
Bobby Fischer on Paul Morphy and how ... ]. Bobby fischer talking about how chess has had the soul taken out of it by the over reliance on theory and opening moves.
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