The Hungarian Approach and How It Fits the American Educational Landscape (2015)

Re:The Hungarian Approach and How It Fits the American Educa... by haihaibye on Monday November 13, 2017 @05:32AM (#15685512)

Ashkenazi Jews have an average IQ of 108-112 compared to a European average of ~100. This shifted mean means they have a much higher percentage of very smart people (~6 times per capita rate of >140iq which is the norm for Nobel prize winners)

This over representation of high IQ is similar to the historical over representation in Nobel prizes for hard sciences.

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Re:The Hungarian Approach and How It Fits the American Educa... by SamReidHughes on Monday November 13, 2017 @05:49AM (#15685572)

You can't make conclusions about the number >140 based on a shift of the mean. IQ is scaled so that the general population has a normal distribution. That doesn't necessarily mean some subpopulation has a normal distribution. Even if that was the case, the subpopulation distribution would still have a different standard deviation. (It would partly depend on the level of assortative mating within that population.)

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Re:The Hungarian Approach and How It Fits the American Educa... by haihaibye on Monday November 13, 2017 @06:58AM (#15685844)

Thanks for expanding on the assumptions I was lazy and just used a ~ to indicate it was approximate.

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