Reality: Racial Intelligence?
I was reading in the Economist the other day that this doctor said: depending on certain factors, it is possible that Jewish people are smarter than the rest of us. One factor is the question, is there really a gene that sets up intelligence. Basically the story goes like this: Because the Jews were persecuted in ancient/middle age times, they were forced into banking jobs by the Romans and others. These jobs have always been held by intelligent people, higher pay, etc. He also say that these intelligent Jews had more children that lived. There for increasing the population of offspring from the smarter banking-type Jew. (Origin of stereotype) Because of history, the world forced the smarter Jews, who could deal with things like banking, to survive and others to perish. Could this mean the world in a way, forced an example of strongest survivors? Darwin at work on a certain homosapien race? Mel Brooks is much smarter than me, I already know that....