About a year ago I found myself checking if a scientists, philosophers or people with a very high IQ (hi Marilyn!) where from a Jewish background on wikipedia. I was impressed by how many intellectual giants where of Jewish roots. After some time it seemed like everyone interesting was Jewish and I even started planing a trip to Israel.
After realizing about how odd that was I got better in a month or so.
I soon went back to the way I was before I explicitly knew about the higher Askenazi IQ. I still “knew” at a gut level they are smart (with childhood heroes like Fenyman, Einstein and Neumann this is hard to miss) but it didn’t factor in with the individual any more.
Happening to learn that someone I admired was Jewish or not lost its affect.
About a year ago I found myself checking if a scientists, philosophers or people with a very high IQ (hi Marilyn!) where from a Jewish background on wikipedia. I was impressed by how many intellectual giants where of Jewish roots. After some time it seemed like everyone interesting was Jewish and I even started planing a trip to Israel.
After realizing about how odd that was I got better in a month or so.
I soon went back to the way I was before I explicitly knew about the higher Askenazi IQ. I still “knew” at a gut level they are smart (with childhood heroes like Fenyman, Einstein and Neumann this is hard to miss) but it didn’t factor in with the individual any more.
Happening to learn that someone I admired was Jewish or not lost its affect.