What is your take on the claim that Jews are the most intelligent in the world?

Question

Charles Murray (himself said to be a "Jewish genius") claims that Jews are an exceptionally accomplished group with an IQ of between seven and fifteen above average. He says he feels comfortable in saying that their purported higher IQs have to do with their genes.

Do you agree with his statements?

Answer 1

I don't believe any race could be described as the most intelligent of the world, or for that matter the most stupid. Jews share their genetic background, with many Arabs, and many Turks, as the original Jewish tribes have long since scattered into oblivion.

For this reason there is not Jewish genetic identity, I myself share genetic lineage, and descent from Judaism, but am not Jewish.

IQs themselves can be wonderful indication of intelligence, but do not measure the real emotional intelligence of the person who has to interact with the world around them. So reliance on IQs for any thing more than another scientific attempt to measure humanity is a fallacy.

Answer 2

Charles Murray is definitely NOT Jewish. Here is a quote from him:

"I have personal experience with the reluctance of Jews to talk about Jewish accomplishment—my co-author, the late Richard Herrnstein, gently resisted the paragraphs on Jewish IQ that I insisted on putting in The Bell Curve (1994). Both history and the contemporary revival of anti-Semitism in Europe make it easy to understand the reasons for that reluctance. But Jewish accomplishment constitutes a fascinating and important story. Recent scholarship is expanding our understanding of its origins.

And so this Scots-Irish Gentile from Iowa hereby undertakes to tell the story. I cover three topics: the timing and nature of Jewish accomplishment, focusing on the arts and sciences; elevated Jewish IQ as an explanation for that accomplishment; and current theories about how the Jews acquired their elevated IQ." Oh, and I agree with his assessment.

Edit: David I below me is wrong about the Hatikvah. There is no other accepted version but this one:

As long as the Jewish spirit is yearning deep in the heart,
With eyes turned toward the East, looking toward Zion,
Then our hope - the two-thousand-year-old hope - will not be lost:
To be a free people in our land,
The land of Zion and Jerusalem.

Answer 3

The query shouldn't purely be why yet why such a lot of Jews believed that he became the Messiah and God during the time he lived and interior the earliest days of the religion. finding at it from the perspective of a 21 century Jew its perplexing if not impossible to comprehend. One desires to think concerning to the variation that factor has remodeled the two millenia. whilst Christians seem back we seem back at what Jews believed at that factor. whilst Jews seem back they be taught it to Judaism right this moment. there became no Talmud no Kabbalah besides the fact that if the Sepher Yetzeria might have existed at that factor not one of the different works had yet been composed. Hebrew became used purely interior the Temple and in some synagogues. maximum Jews spoke Aramaic or Greek. Hebrew became not getting used apart from be taught and liturgical use. For the main area Jews weren't analyzing the "Tanakh" they have been analyzing the Septuagint and the Targums. Translations of the Jewish scriptures made into Greek and Aramaic. the two have been seen outstanding translations then. as quickly as the Christians began employing them this might exchange. The Jewish scriptures had not been redacted via the Masorites yet. What became seen Scripture became distinctive. Many books have been standard as being Scripture that are actually not standard right this moment. To get a miles better understanding you are able to desire to look on the Ethiopian Jews. Ethiopian Jews have been separated from something of the Jewish community till now the time of Jesus and nonetheless settle for lots of those books. those books incorporate the ideals many Christians have that modern-day Jews now reject. in certainty Ethiopian Jews settle for all the books contained interior the Catholic OT and a lot of greater. the excuses why could be argued yet of course most of the Scripture standard via the Jews that supported Jesus's Messiah-deliver became rejected whilst the followers of Christianity began to dwarf Judaism. concerning to the pagan impacts or origins of Christianity. i'll assert we are able to detect an identical development in Judaism. Clears references to Artemis and similarities to pagan ideals interior the region. an trustworthy seem will coach very distinctive contexts to those similarities and very much on incompatibility. There are books that declare that all and sundry religions are truly an identical employing an identical logic. all of us know that it truly isn't actual.

Answer 4

According to Rabbi Benjamin Biech,,"The complete idiots guide to Jewish History and culture, he is absolutely correct. The Jew has always been taught that education is of the utmost importance. This has been handed down for several millenniums. If it weren't for a Jew, many of you would have Polio. If it weren't for a Jew, you wouldn't be talking on your cell phone or listening to records. The revolutionary war was financed by a smart, wealthy Jew.. without his help you would be speaking with a British accent or maybe German accent without the help of Albert Einstein. A vast number of Jews are Nobel Prise winners over the years.. In all fields! So to say they are smarter.. perhaps.. is it in their genes.. YES.. and always will be.

Answer 5

I disagree.

Judaism places immense emphasis on education, that's where we get our smarts.

By the way, HaTikva is:

As long as within the Jewish heart
A Jewish soul still yearns
And eastward
The eyes gaze, toward Zion

Our hope is not yet lost,
The hope of two thousand years
To be a free people in our own land
The land of Zion and Jerusalem

miss yahoogirl, kindly explain to me how i contradict myself. i find it interesting where you gain the chutzpah to tell everyone else what their religion believes...when it seems you can't even sort out your own.

By the way, at least this Little Miss Dimwit is smart enough not to resort to childish name-calling.

Answer 6

It doesn't matter whether I agree with him or not. He could be right. I don't have a means of measuring the IQ's of Jews.

Answer 7

Maybe, yet I am 165 IQ but was dumb about God till I got hope
The Messianic words to HaTikvah -give the true national anthem of Israel "Long I wandered long I strayed, searching for God and his Messiah's reality, then I found him------His love laid hold of me--------pause---- now I know him ------as my best friend------now i know his shalom with my heart-----now I have peace and hope that never will depart!

As a Jew I sang the traditional songs but had no hope

then I believed Isaiah 52:13-53:12 He will be exalted but first marred more than any man. He will lay down his life to make atonement for our sins. He will be despised and rejected and our sins will be made to light on him. All we like sheep have gone astray but the Lord will make to light on him the iniquities of us all. He will die with the wicked and be burried with the rich.

through this I found our Messiah Jesus asked forgiveness of my sins and him into my heart to be my friend to help me, amen (Revelation 3:19&20 He promised in His love for each person knockin on our heart door to come in)
and I got the true hope of my Jewish people, with Him my savior and best friend Messiah life is grand.

its not how smart we are in answer to your question-its what we do with what we have

Answer 8

Education is very important to jewish people and so is hard work. This is also true about the Germans and the Japanese. So which one is the supreme race then?

Answer 9

false. No one is generally smarter than any other. Some will claim that people who originated from tribal cultures are less intelligent that civilized urbanoids... I feel that each and every person has equal potential, and that it needs to be realized.

Answer 10

Without seeing his sources for this claim, it's not worth commenting either way.