History of Mughalstan

Samar Abbas abbas at IOPB.RES.IN
Sat Sep 2 10:07:15 UTC 2000


Vidyasankar Sundaresan wrote: "It is highly anachronistic to apply the
> notion of IQ to peoples who did not think of such a thing..."

  That intelligence is partly inherited was well-known to the ancients :
"Jewish success has depended on the evolution of a highly intelligent
group of people using eugenics...Europeans have...an average IQ of 103
versus the average Jewish IQ of 117"
                               - [ http://home.att.net/~nuenke/mac.htm ]
 So this is just another common thread between Europe and India.

Jon Skarpeid wrote: "The Jews do not form 5-10% of the population of
>Europe [e]ven before the Holocaust."

 Actually, Jews formed 13.76 % of total population in Poland, and
10.85% in Galicia, 4.40 % in Hungary, almost 4 % in Russia ca. 1900.
  -- [ http://metalab.unc.edu/yiddish/Book/Cohen/stat.htm ]
 So the previous comparison between Europe and India is not misplaced.

Samar





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