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https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/contra-smith-on-jewish-selective

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Noah Smith\xa0asks whether Jews are really disproportionately successful.

(in case it shapes the way you read any of this, both he and I are Jewish)

By the numbers, it would seem they are. US Jews have\xa0a median household income\xa0about 50% higher than US Christians, a\xa0net worth about 6x that of Christians, and are\xa0about twice as likely as Christians\xa0to make more than $100K/year. They're about\xa0twice as likely as Christians\xa0to get college degrees, and about 15x more likely to win Nobel prizes. These numbers are of about the same magnitude as the gap between blacks and whites, so if you take those numbers seriously, you should probably take these ones seriously too.

But Noah wonders if this really needs an interesting explanation, or if it's just a series of boring things on top of each other. He gives five reasons why maybe Jews could do unusually well. I\u2019m going to concentrate on selective immigration, then briefly touch on the others.