Back in September I noted that Jewish children in Israel average Raven IQs of about 92 (U.K. norms) but by age 14.5 these increase to 95. Since it’s thought that Jewish IQ increases post-puberty, I take 95 as a good estimate for Israel’s adult Jewish IQ.

Unfortunately the data was not disaggregated by type of Jewish ancestry. An analysis by Hanna David and Richard Lynn found that in Israel, European Jews score about 14 IQ points higher than Oriental Jews though the gap is bigger on verbal tests. For example on the Israeli WISC, the gap was 1.1 standard deviations (SD) (17 IQ points) on verbal IQ but only 0.93 SD on Performance IQ (14 IQ points). It’s unclear what the Raven IQ gap would be more like verbal, performance or full-scale, but let’s split the difference and say 15 points.

Assuming 31.8% of Israeli Jews are Ashkenazi and they score 15 points higher than the non-Ashkenazi, then what would they need to score for the average IQ of all Israeli Jews to be 95? The answer is 105.

[Update 2022-02-06: Commenter Mug of Pee found a different source claiming 44.2% of Israeli Jews are Ashkenazi. Applying the same math to this figure put’s the Ashkenazi IQ at 103.]

So it seems at least in Israel and probably Serbia, Ashkenazi Jews have Raven IQs identical to those of East Asians. I can’t find any data on Ashkenazi Raven data in the United States, except for a small group of Ashkenazi prisoners who scored about 19 IQ points higher than the Gentile prisoners.

Just as Ashkenazim score 10 points higher than the average Israeli Jew, there is another group that scores 11 points lower. In his analysis of the Israeli military IQ data, James Flynn noted:

Recall that those not usually tested are predominantly from Orthodox homes of Eastern European origin, and they are known to have a lower IQ profile than the rest of the Jewish population (Judy Goldenberg,
personal communication, 25 April 1993). Should there not be a large IQ gap between the usually tested and the usually not tested? In reply, that is exactly what the projection shows…The IQ gap between the usually tested and the usually not tested is a robust 10·7 points

Not usually tested by the military is what Flynn means. He’s referring to those who escape service through pregnancy or religious devotion. However they likely would be included in the age 14 Israeli Jewish average of IQ 95, I assume.

So to summarize there are three types of Jews in Israel: Ashkenazi IQ 103- 105, Middle eastern IQ 88 -90, and ultra-Orthodox IQ 84 (11 points below the military sample, which since it’s 98% Jewish, presumably scored 95). Of course these groups are not mutually exclusive because Orthodox can be either Ashkenazi or Middle easter though the group Flynn describes is of Eastern European ancestry.

[Update 2022-02-06: I crossed out my estimate for Orthodox IQ because I simply don’t believe they score that low. I may have made a logical error: Just because the people who are usually not tested are primarily Orthodox Jews, doesn’t mean the Orthodox Jews are primarily usually not tested, so I can’t necessarily infer the IQ of one from the other]

At least five years ago, I became perhaps the first person to try to estimate the IQ of Bushmen from the IQs of the races that gave rise to South Africa’s Coloureds. Commenter Someguy has also tried this but I assume he was inspired by me, but he’s so bright he may have thought of it independently.

But commenter Mug of Pee made an important point:

south africa’s coloreds in general aren’t the same as cape coloreds.

are they?

“colored” under apartheid did not just mean cape coloreds.

did it?

interesting that “kaffir” (a word borrowed from muslim slavers) is now like “[n word redacted by pp, 2022-02-05]”. but colored is still socially acceptable. just like in the US referring to blacks as “coloreds” had become offensive, but now non-whites are referred to with more than twice as many syllables with “people of color”.

it’s the stupidity stupid.

it’s the cape coloreds who are plurality bushman. the reason why the cape coloreds are koi-san is because when the dutch landed there were no bantus for like 500 miles in all directions.

and “khoesan” should be hyphenated. there’re two peoples, the koi and the san.

So who are the Coloureds who scored IQ 85 in K Owen’s 1992 paper on Raven IQ in South African standard seven school kids? “The coloured sample consisted of 778 pupils drawn from 20 coloured schools in the Cape Peninsula” he wrote.

The most authoritative source I could find on Coloured genetic admixture is Uren et al. 2017 which gives the following data:

Ignoring the first study because it failed to separate Bushmen from other Blacks and averaging the most recent three, we get the following admixture levels: 30% Bantu, 34% Bushmen, 15% White, 7% Chinese and 14% South Asian. We know from Owen’s study (after I adjusted for 1991 HDI) that South African Bantu, Whites and South Asians had IQs of 80, 98 and 92 respectively.

The Chinese are usually said to have IQs around 105, however the Chinese ancestors of Coloureds were likely indentured labourers. Lynn (2006) noted that in the United States, the descendants of Chinese who arrived as labourers had IQs of only 101 so I’m adopting this as the best estimate for South Africa’s Chinese.

Thus Coloured genetic IQ = 0.30 (Bantu genetic IQ) + 0.34 (Bushmen genetic IQ) + 0.15 (White genetic IQ) + 0.07 (Chinese genetic IQ) + 0.14(South Asian genetic IQ)

85 = 0.30(80) + 0.34(Bushmen genetic IQ) + 0.15(98) + 0.07(101) + 0.14(92)

85 = 24 + 0.34(Bushmen genetic IQ) + 14.7 + 7.07 + 12.88

85 = 58.65 + 0.34(Bushmen genetic IQ)

85 – 58.65 = 0.34(Bushmen genetic IQ)

78 = Bushmen genetic IQ

So contra Richard Lynn, it seems Bushmen are roughly as intelligent as the rest of sub-Saharan Africa. Their socio-economic disadvantage was caused by physical inferiority and distance from the civilized Arab World, and not from low genetic IQ.

A sub-Saharan is a sub-Saharan is a sub-Saharan.

In my last post I cited evidence showing South African Coloureds are 19% Bantu, 20% White, 8% East Asian, 22% South Asian, 28% Bushmen and 3% Southeast Asian. From this data I estimated Bushmen have a genetic IQ of 67 (UK norms), which if true, would be the lowest racial mean ever discovered.

However commenter “Some guy” provided alternative ancestry estimates which made me want to replicate my results using a different dataset.

One major study states:

…nearly 75,000 autosomal SNPs that could be compared with populations represented in the International HapMap Project and the Human Genome Diversity Project. Analysis by means of both the admixture and linkage models in STRUCTURE revealed that the major ancestral components of this population are predominantly Khoesan (32-43%), Bantu-speaking Africans (20-36%), European (21-28%) and a smaller Asian contribution (9-11%), depending on the model used. This is consistent with historical data.

Using the midpoint of each of these ranges, Coloureds genetic IQ = 0.375(Bushmen genetic IQ) + 0.28 (Bantu genetic IQ) + 0.245(White genetic IQ) +01(Indian genetic IQ)

Substituting my estimates for the genetic IQ of each of these South African ethnic groups (except for Bushmen which is least known):

85 = 0.375(Bushmen genetic IQ) + 0.28(80) + 0.245(98) + 0.1(92)

85 = 0.375(Bushmen genetic IQ) + 22.4 + 24.01 + 9.2

85 = 0.375(Bushmen genetic IQ) + 55.61

85 – 55.61 = 0.375(Bushmen genetic IQ)

29.39 = 0.375(Bushmen genetic IQ)

78.37 = Bushmen genetic IQ

This is much higher than the IQ 67 I reported based on somewhat different admixture levels. Of course in this study the data was directly reported while in the other one, I had to estimate it from a chart, though I did so very carefully.

More research is needed to determine whether Bushmen are a uniquely challenged population (genetic IQ 67) or whether they are just typical sub-Saharans (IQ of roughly 80) or somewhere in between. Answering this question is the closest we have come to knowing how smart the very first members of our species were.

The Bushmen are one of the most unique populations in the human species, having been genetically and culturally isolated from most other humans for tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of years. And yet despite their incredible uniqueness and ancient splitting off date, almost nothing is known about their intelligence level; indeed political correctness prevents scientists from even asking the question.

Given that Bushmen split from the rest of our species before behavioral modernity appeared, their IQs hold the answer to questions that scientists have been asking for decades. Was the Upper Paleolithic Revolution (the sudden explosion of art and advanced tools some 70 to 40 kya) a cultural change or a genetic change?

With Bushman on the verge of extinction and political correctness only growing stronger, we may never be able to test more Bushmen, let alone raise them in white upper class homes and see if their scores improve, let alone scan whole genomes for IQ variants.

But fortunately the genetics of Bushmen are preserved in the South African Coloureds and the IQs of these have been well studied. They have a phenotypic IQ of 82 and, I estimate, a genetic IQ of 85.

Based on the above graphic, Coloureds are are 19% Bantu, 20% White, 8% East Asian, 22% South Asian, 28% Bushmen and 3% other. The other is probably Southeast Asians. In their book, The Intelligence of Nations, Lynn & Becker cite a 1996 study by Hadidjaja et al. in which samples of Indonesian kids obtained Raven IQs (corrected for Flynn effect) of about 80 to 86, or roughly 83. Given Indonesia’s 0.529 HDI in 1991, I used a technique to estimate their genetic IQs at 93. Meanwhile, I’ve estimated that South African Whites, Indians, and Blacks have genetic IQs of 98, 92 and 80 respectively. Armed with the genetic IQ of Coloureds (85) and the genetic IQs of five of the six races that compose their ancestry, and their relative proportions, solving for the fifth race (Bushmen) is simple algebra:

Coloureds genetic IQ = 0.19(Bantu genetic IQ) + 0.2(White genetic IQ) + 0.08%(East Asian genetic IQ) + 0.22(South Asian genetic IQ) + 0.28(Bushman) + 0.03(Southeast Asian IQ)

85 = 0.19(80) + 0.2(98) + 0.08(105) + 0.22(92) + 0.28(Bushmen genetic IQ) + 0.03(93)

85 = 15.2 + 19.6 + 8.4 + 20.24 + 0.28(Bushmen genetic IQ) + 2.79

85 = 66.23 + 0.28(Bushmen genetic IQ)

85 – 66.23 = 0.28(Bushmen genetic IQ)

18.77 = 0.28(Bushmen genetic IQ)

18.77/0.28 = Bushmen genetic IQ

67 = Bushmen genetic IQ

Back in April 2020, Dr. Phil went on Fox News and warned about the dangers of the lockdown. After that appearance he was blasted by liberals for minimizing the dangers of the virus and much of the criticism spilled over against Oprah for making Dr. Phil famous in the first place.

Ever since she helped elect Obama circa 2008, Oprah has been far more popular with liberals than with conservatives, but there is a small but vocal minority of liberals that hate Oprah. For if a dark skinned black woman from the lowest social class, can rise up to become one of the richest, most influential, most powerful, and beloved people on Earth, then what excuse do they have?

Some of these liberal keep their Oprah hatred to themselves for fear of looking racist, but whenever Dr. Phil does something wrong, the leap at the chance to bash him but then shift to bashing Oprah for giving us him.

They are attacking Oprah, but because they are attacking Oprah for giving us a white man, they are being the opposite of racist and sexist.

Because without Oprah, a Southern working class overweight bald ageing straight man from the backwoods of Texas would never have been given a talk show.

You would think with such stereotypically redneck demographics, Dr. Phil would be racist, but you’d be wrong. Dr. Phil’s freakishly large brain gave him the intelligence and compassion to condemn those who were bullying Arabs and Muslims after 9/11.

And now Dr. Phil has proven right about the lockdown. We can’t keep shutting down the entire economy every time there’s an increase in covid cases. Because unless we’re willing to get the United Nations to convince every army on the planet to triple vax every living human, the virus is just going to keep spreading and keep mutating.

It’s time to open up the economy. Invest in more hospitals, treatments and better pay for nurses and doctors. Let private businesses decide for themselves whether their customers and employees need to be vaxed. And let nature (and the free market) take its course.

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By 2010, the average IQ of Saudi Arabia on the Raven Standard Progressive Matrices was 84 (UK norms) however as of 2004, the stunting rate in the Arab world was 9.3%. Using a technique I described in my last post, this suggests Arab IQ is stunted by 4 points and that their genetic IQ is 88.

This seems quite low for the people who first invented agriculture and then invented civilization and then produced the most influential man of all time, the prophet Mohammed. However we must believe that generations of cousin marriage harmed their gene pool because of inbreeding depression which attacks all Darwinian fitness traits, from brain size to height. Mixing with sub-Saharan slaves likely also had an effect.

One sign that Arab IQ has declined is the degree to which they are dominated by Jews, despite their much greater population and natural resources. The 9/11 attacks only played into Zionist hands, by dragging the U.S. into Middle east wars.

My favorite thing about the Arab World is shawarmas (yum!), I just wish you could get one with cheese and mayonnaise added to it 🙂