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>My ancient 4chan-tier analysis of the Lynn data where I corrected for convenience sampling turned out to be right on the money.

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I think it is possible that historical jewish IQ is significantly higher than current when i consider jewish success in 20th century. Central european(germany, austria, hungary) ashkenazis seem particularly smart.

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Question inspired from reading Raymond Aron’s autobiography. The way he describes it, his parents’ marriage was arranged by their respective families, both belonging to the French Jewish bourgeoisie but from different regions. Could this explain an unusually high level of assortative mating, resulting for instance in one single Hungarian High School having so many Nobel Prizes and scientific geniuses?

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