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Re:Thinking positively: The genetics of high intelligence by Mz on Monday November 02, 2015 @07:13PM (#10496433)
One of my best search skills appears to be ego surfing, so here is a link from a previous discussion I participated in about ten years ago:

www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/7/29/20293/9910

Edit: It contains the stats I was trying to reference above but was misremembering. They are 3% of the population and 27% of U.S. Nobel Prize winners.

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Re:Thinking positively: The genetics of high intelligence by danieltillett on Monday November 02, 2015 @07:44PM (#10496566)
Yes Ashkenazi Jews are found disproportionally in professions where having a high intelligence increases the probability of success, however, no one really knows why. It is possible that it is genetic (I would be surprised if there was not at least some genetic component), but it could also be cultural.
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