Jason writes:
This brings up another deep thought. Ever wonder why high IQ Jews and Palestinians can’t get along? Could it be because the Arab IQ is so inbred and low? How much can one blame on the Jews?
Needless to say, I strongly disagree with the thrust of this argument. However it does bring up an interesting question regarding what the IQ’s are of the Israelis and the Palestinians. After a bit of Googling around, I found these figures:
Ethnic group IQ Israeli Ashkenazim 107 Israeli Jewish 100 Israeli Sephardic 99 Israeli total 98 Israeli Mizrachi 93 Israeli Arabs/Palestinians 85
Most figures are from here. Israeli Ashkenazim figure is from here. Better figures including a study by James Flynn are here (Flynn 1998. Kaniel and Fisherman 1991). This page seems to prove that Lynn’s widely cited 94-95 figure for Israel is wrong and a better figure is 98. The figure for Palestinians is a result of a recent study done by Richard Lynn (Bakhieta and Lynn 2014).
Feel free to discuss and make of these figures what you will.
References
- Bakhieta, Salaheldin Farah Attallah and Lynn, Richard. A Study of the IQ in Palestine. November–December 2014. Intelligence: 47, 10–11.
Flynn, J. R. 1998. Israeli Military IQ Tests: Gender Differences Small; IQ Gains Large. Journal of Biosocial Science:30, pp.541-553.
Kaniel, S. and Fisherman, S. 1991. Level of Performance and Distribution of Errors in the Progressive Matrices Test: A Comparison of Ethiopian Immigrant and Native Israeli Adolescents. International Journal of Psychology:26, pp. 25-33.
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