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Originally Posted by highthief
I think you'll find that to be incorrect.
Firstly, the higher scores were related to Ashkenazi Jews (basically, Jews of Central European descent) not other Jews.
Second, comparative analysis shows large variation between different European populations. Now, one can argue that the tests don;t take cultural and environmental biases into account, such that Bulgarians are scoring lower than Danes, but then the same might account for Ashkenazi Jewish scores.
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I can't find the specific references related to this topic. I'm fairly certain that the statements in that post were related to differences within the United States. So, you may very well be correct that it's Ashkenazi Jews that are driving the difference I cited above. I'm not making a claim about innate differences between Jews and other white groups. Would you expect environmental biases to affect differences between Azhkenazi Jews and other "whites" within the United States?
I know that Lesser (1972?) found differences between ethnic groups supposedly across cultures. He focused on specific abilities and I don't have the article. So, I can't be sure that his Jewish sample wasn't entirely Ashkenazi.