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Are Jews Smarter Than Everyone Else?

The debate about “race” and “intelligence” seems to be never ending. The “special nature” of the intelligence ascribed to “Jews” has recently reappeared in an essay by one of the authors of the notorious study of race and intelligence – The Bell Curve. How this debate is constructed and what its imp...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gilman, Sander L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3190562/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22013349
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-1229.34526
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Sumario:The debate about “race” and “intelligence” seems to be never ending. The “special nature” of the intelligence ascribed to “Jews” has recently reappeared in an essay by one of the authors of the notorious study of race and intelligence – The Bell Curve. How this debate is constructed and what its implications are for the reappearance of “race” as a category in medical and biological science is at the core of this present essay.