Tag: nurture vs nature
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Ashkenazi Jewish intelligence: Innate or evironmental?
Ideas about Ashkenazi Jewish cognitive abilities have roots in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. During the rise of scientific racism and eugenics in Europe, some scientists fixated on supposed racial differences in intellect. In this period, even antisemitic theorists speculated that Jews might have distinctive mental traits, sometimes casting Jewish intelligence in a…
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The history of IQ and the nature vs. nurture debate
Few topics in psychology have sparked as much passion, controversy, and misunderstanding as the debate over intelligence. The concept of the intelligence quotient, or IQ, transformed a philosophical question into a measurable construct, but it also ignited one of the most enduring scientific discussions: how much of human intelligence is inherited, and how much depends…
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Blacks and Hispanics have genetically lower intelligence
Of course, there is no exact evidence that different races possess different intelligence (g factor (IQ)). Let’s pretend blacks have the same genes for intelligence as East Asians and white people. However, there have been experiments with the exchange of children of different races into respectively different families (black children into white families and vice…