Reply To: How important are brains?

Torah613: Chassidim don’t win Nobel prizes, but they are the same Ashkenazim who have been surveyed countless times and found to have significantly higher IQs than the average. IQs supposedly measure raw intelligence, and while it’s true that if you don’t speak English, or have an education that is below a certain threshold, the test won’t be accurate, it’s also true that the differences manifest among groups who have similar standards of living. I.e., while it’s true that tests administered to third world tribesmen were not reflective of genetic intelligence, it’s also true that the comparison between Ashkenazim and others was not “Ashkenazim at Princeton compared to others in the Australian outback.”