{"id":64429,"date":"2015-02-26T15:04:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T23:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=64429"},"modified":"2023-09-14T04:19:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T12:19:08","slug":"why-are-there-so-many-jews-at-the-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=64429","title":{"rendered":"Why Are There So Many Jews At The Top?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why is there such a large achievement gap between Jews and non-Jews. Why are Jews wealthier and more powerful than any other group, religious or racial?<\/p>\n<p>I see these possibilities:<\/p>\n<p>* High Jewish IQ. Ashkenazi Jewish IQ average in America has been measured at around 110, five points higher than East-Asians and ten points higher, on average, than whites.<br \/>\n* Ethnic networking. Jews enjoy more group solidarity than other groups.<br \/>\n* The wisdom of the Jewish tradition. Judaism, for instance, is the most this-world oriented of the world&#8217;s religions.<\/p>\n<p>If you look at things statistically, almost all of Jewish success can be accounted for by the higher average IQ of Ashkenazi Jews. Sephardic, Mizrahi and Ethiopian Jews don&#8217;t out-achieve Gentiles on average.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is there such a large achievement gap between Jews and non-Jews. Why are Jews wealthier and more powerful than any other group, religious or racial? I see these possibilities: * High Jewish IQ. Ashkenazi Jewish IQ average in America &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=64429\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64429"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151881,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64429\/revisions\/151881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}