Gee, Scoob, I wonder if screencap is relevant to pop music's effect on the brain? (link in comments)
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While I get it, jew showtunes have often been a thing for long time before pop music. High verbal IQ from lots of inbreeding and studying the Mosaic Law is my guess.
Examples you would know: Rogers and Hammerstein, Gershwin, etc.
The theory of multiple intelligences has been disproven. There’s only IQ, and it’s genetic. Average Ashkenazi IQ is around 103, despite a famous flawed study claiming 115. It’s not their intelligence.
Disproven? More like disputed. And yes, there is an "overall" IQ score, which is partially explained by genetics, epigenetics, and upbringing.
It’s not real. The idea of multiple intelligences is an emotional tool used to make people feel that everyone can be special in their own way. In reality, all of those multiple intelligences almost perfectly correlate with the intelligence “g factor”; if you are intelligent in one area, you’re also intelligent in the others. That’s what IQ is.
You're not doing the counter argument justice. We can measure intelligence with standard IQ tests with reliability (it is just a proxy after all for actual intelligence), or with another kind of proxy measurement (SAT scores). When you do that, the law of large numbers kicks in and you get a "normal" probability distribution, also called a bell curve. Seems pretty solid, from a social science perspective anyway, mostly due to replication.
However, different kinds of tests geared toward measuring things like spatial reasoning over logic give results that show, like real world experience, people have different strengths and weaknesses. Do these average out in standard IQ test. Yes and no. We all know first hand someone book smart but otherwise stupid.