Why is the IQ of Ashkenazi Jews so High?

by Hank Pellissier

Overview

Why is the IQ of Ashkenazi Jews so High? Scientific Factors that Influence Intelligence is efficiently organized and valuable to everyone, of any age, anywhere. The author's goal is to elevate the average IQ of humans everywhere on Earth because he believes this advance would benefit global peace and increase economic prosperity, secularism, liberalism, health, and technological advances. (This assertion has been fortified recently by Steven Pinker in his publication, The Better Angels of Our Nature.)

The first two chapters of Why is the IQ of Ashkenazi Jews so High? explore Ashkenazi Jewish IQ and East Asian "Confucian Nations" IQ, with numerous proposed explanations of their successes. The author's intention is to locate and pass along guidance gleaned from the Ashkenazi and East Asian cultures. He believes every nationality in the world would be proud to earn an equal proportional number of Nobel Prizes as the Ashkenazi Jews, for example, so he suggests that high-IQ societies be scrutinized for tips, clues, and secrets that propel them toward their accomplishments.

The third chapter details challenges faced in the Sub-Sahara, the world's poorest region in economics, human lifespan, and average IQ. Multiple factors are listed, especially in Nigeria, that are detrimental to human-brain potential. The author expresses his fervent hope that mentally-destructive conditions can be eliminated so Sub-Saharan citizens can enjoy equality in every category with the world's highest-ranked nations.

Chapters 4-8 of the book deliver the nuts 'n' bolts, axons 'n' dendrites aspect of the book's research. Listed here is information gleamed from combing through PubMed.gov studies. The data, notes the author, can help readers from a multiplicity of backgrounds; it can guide you if:

* You are an expectant parent who wants to optimize prenatal and infancy cognitive conditions for your offspring
* You want to assist your school-age children in academic success
* You are an adult who wants to boost your intellectual strength
* You are 55+ years old and you don't want your brainpower to dwindle, via Alzheimer's, dementia, etc.
* You belong to an educational or governmental organization that provides mental-health guidance to a community. The ideas in the book can serve as an outline for policy.

The author's intention is to provide knowledge about what smartens and stupefies humanity, so that everyone can adopt a "high-IQ lifestyle" that enhances our brains and the brains of our children and the greater society. He hopes for a global 130-point IQ by 2045, where the "average" person is as discerning, knowledgeable, and inventive as today's Ivy League graduates. He notes that if this occurred, with the bell curve leaping up by two standard deviations, the number of the world's geniuses (IQ 145+) would skyrocket to 1.05 billion. There would be a Chronic Intelligence Explosion, an Organic Singularity.

The author believes this enormous IQ jump is attainable, because 50% of our IQ is based on "environmental" factors. He believes humanity already has the ability to create mentally-enriching habitats that can substantially enlarge our IQs. Additionally, he asserts that our advancing strides in genetic engineering will further enable us to boost our cognitive abilities.

Why is the IQ of Ashkenazi Jews so High? contains references to hundreds of PubMed.gov studies on factors that make us stupid or smart. This is a copious amount of solid scientifically-proven data that everyone can use in homes, schools, on the Internet, and in the marketplace, to biggie-up our brains, our friends' and families' noggins, and especially, the next generation.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940032944416
Publisher:	Wilcox Publishing
Publication date:	12/22/2011
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	406 KB

About the Author

Hank Pellissier is the Managing Director of the Institute for Ethics in Emerging Technology, a techno-progressive think tank (IEET.org). He's the author of "Why is the IQ of Ashkenazi Jews so High? - scientific factors that influence intelligence" and "Invent Utopia Now: Transhumanist Suggestions for the Pre-Singularity Era" both available on this page or at wilcoxpublishing.com/published Hank has written dozens of often-controversial futurist articles for IEET, H+ Magazine, the World Future Society, and other publications, occasionally under his nom de plume, “Hank Hyena.” He lectured at the H+ Summit in Harvard on “Global Transhumanism,” and co-authored the “Extropist Manifesto.”A journalist, Hank is a frequent contributor to GreatSchools.org where he writes about brain functionality and education. He's also a blogger for the world Future Society. Past work includes a weekly column entitled "Local Intelligence" for the New York Times / Bay Citizen, a daily column for Salon.com (“Naked World”), two weekly columns for SfGate.com (“Urban Animal” and “Odd Barkings”), and a monthly column for SF Metropolitan (“Frisco Utopia”), plus numerous features.Hank is the founder/director of two non-profit organizations, the Hyena Comedy Institute - where he trained stand-ups and produced 80+ shows - and The Kids’ Co-op Inc., a non-profit that launched two SF preschools and donated funds, food, and school supplies to ten foreign locales, primarily the Philippines, where seven hectares of agricultural land were purchased to enable a Mangyan tribal village to self-subsist. In the 1990's he was an edgy comic monologuist; the SF Chronicle labeled him, “San Francisco’s performance-art bad boy.” His poetry is anthologized in "The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry," he’s been a SF Poetry Slam co-champion, and his performance pieces have toured eleven states and six international countries. As an events producer, he instigated the SF DADA Festival, the SF Buddhist Festival, the Bay Area Muslim Performance Festival, the world’s first Atheist Film Festival, and North Beach Street Utopia.Hank has a BA in History and an MA in Humanities/Religious Studies. He enjoys forecasting trends, illustrating scenarios, and propounding solutions. His hobbies include traveling and exercising with his triathlete wife and two hyperactive daughters, but mostly, he prefers to just research, write, and argue online with readers who dispute his essay’s contentions.Hank is available for writing assignments and speaking engagements.-----Some comments he's received:"perversely charming, delightfully outrageous" - San Francisco Chronicle"witty, quirky, with a knack for the provocative twist" - San Francisco Examiner"trenchant, witty, with a cogent political analysis" - Bay Area Reporter"written with brains and balls" - Factsheet Five