Ashkenazi Jewish intelligence – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
richards | March 5, 2016
The intelligence of Ashkenazi Jews relative to other ethnic groups has been an occasional subject of scientific controversy.[1] A 2005 scientific paper, "Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence",[2] proposed that Ashkenazi Jews as a group inherit higher verbal and mathematical intelligence with lower spikes in spatial intelligence than other ethnic groups, on the basis of inherited diseases and the peculiar economic situation of Ashkenazi Jews in the Middle Ages.
