Excellent point. This whole post started because I joked once that spatial reasoning was just put in the test to make gentiles feel better, and then I realised it was somewhat true.
Excellent point. This whole post started because I joked once that spatial reasoning was just put in the test to make gentiles feel better, and then I realised it was somewhat true.
I think that אַשכּנזים do really well on verbal and maths tests because Ezra made reading and writing have so much status, in 500BC, when literacy and numeracy would have been an excellent proxy for g.
Women choose to make copies of high status males, and here we are 40 generations later, with the Ashkenazim.
Excellent point. This whole post started because I joked once that spatial reasoning was just put in the test to make gentiles feel better, and then I realised it was somewhat true.
I think that אַשכּנזים do really well on verbal and maths tests because Ezra made reading and writing have so much status, in 500BC, when literacy and numeracy would have been an excellent proxy for g.
Women choose to make copies of high status males, and here we are 40 generations later, with the Ashkenazim.