I get these cafeteria moments too when reading about this subject :( My only saving grace is that most of the non-white population of my city is East-Asian so (until I snap out of it) I get to ponder the putative superiority, rather than inferiority, of the Other.
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.
I get these cafeteria moments too when reading about this subject :( My only saving grace is that most of the non-white population of my city is East-Asian so (until I snap out of it) I get to ponder the putative superiority, rather than inferiority, of the Other.
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.