http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/216254

if it weren't for the recent emigres from Russia etc.

that would be skewed a lot more

INTERESTING

COULD BE GOOD FOR THEM

TO BECOME A MORE RELIGIOUS POPULATION

DEPENDS ON IQ EFFECTS

THEN AGAIN

MAYBE THIS IS NATURE SOLVING AN INSTABILITY

HIGH IQ IS NOT VERY STABLE

They are likely to still have some selection for intelligence as they always did

Culture of study and talmudism

THEN THIS COULD BE STAIBILIZATION

YES

high verbal intelligence helps

A WONDERFUL CONTRIBUTION

HIGH VERBAL WITHOUT HIGH SPATIAL IS A PROBLEM HOWEVER

there's considerable overlap, Jews in particular have an issue with a big difference (relatively big)

but still, overlap

EXPLAINS JEWISH PREDOMINANCE IN TECH AND MATH

Jewish art doesn't tend to be very visual

BUT LESS SO IN LITERATURE

INTERESTING

One would think you need visuospatial for math

(NOW TRYING TO THINK OF EXAMPLES OF JEWISH ART....)

YES

BUT MAYBE NOT

but its actually verbal intelligence that deals with a lot of logical processes etc.

IF THERE IS ANOTHER WAY TO HANDLE IT

AGREED

LOGICAL CONSISTENCY

When western art became more jewish, post emancipation as the intelligentsia became jewish near the start of the 20th century and beyond

there is that big jump away from classicism, drawin gud etc.

https://mpcdot.com/forums/topic/1526-jewish-visual-intelligence/

not sure I'm down with every assertion

but the basic concept of jews in art -> less visual more "conceptual" art

is reasonably compelling

my own theory is visuospatial intelligence is an important factor in music composition

I'm sure you've had some similar ideas re: music as shape in musical space

I THINK SO

ALTHOUGH SOMETIMES IT SEEMS MORE LOGICAL/MATHEMATICAL