"And the serpent was the smartest animal." - Genesis 3:1
Ashkenazi Jews, who make up about 75% of the world's Jews today, have on average the highest IQ of any ethnic group in the world. The average IQ of Ashkenazi Jews is 115, which is 8 points higher than the average of the next smartest demographic, Northeast Asians, and 45% higher than the global average IQ of 79 calculated by Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen. A 1954 study found that 24 of the 28 (86%) children in the New York public school system who had an IQ of 170 or higher were Jewish. And a 1958 study of yeshiva students demonstrated that they had an extraordinary high verbal intelligence (which includes verbal reasoning, comprehension, working memory, and mathematical computation) as their median verbal IQ was found to be 125.
Of the 965 individual recipients of the Nobel Prize and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences between 1901 and 2023, at least 216 have been Jews or people with at least one Jewish parent, representing 22% of all recipients. Jews comprise only 0.2% of the world's population, meaning their share of winners is 110 times their proportion of the world's population.
Only about 2% of the U.S. population is of full Ashkenazi Jewish descent, but 27% of United States Nobel prize winners in the 20th century, 25% of the winners of the Fields Medal (the top prize in mathematics), 25% of ACM Turing Award winners, a quarter of Regeneron Science Talent Search winners, and 38% of the Academy Award-winning film directors have either full or partial Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry. Jews comprise up to one third of the student populace at Ivy League universities, and 30% of the U.S. Supreme Court's law clerks.
In Hungary in the 1930s, Ashkenazi Jews comprised 6% of the country's population, but 55.7% of physicians, 49.2% of attorneys, 30.4% of engineers, and 59.4% of bank officers; plus, they owned 49.4% of the metallurgy industry, 41.6% of machine manufacturing, 72.8% of clothing manufacturing, and, as housing owners, they received 45.1% of Budapest rental income. Jews were similarly successful in nearby nations, like Poland and Germany.
Source: https://handwiki.org/wiki/Philosophy:Ashkenazi_Jewish_intelligence
Some Jewish inventors:
Inventor of Internet: Robert Kahn (Jewish)
Inventor of Barcode: N. J. Woodland (Jewish)
Inventor of mobile phone: Martin Cooper (Jewish)
Inventor of AI: John McCarthy (Jewish)
Inventor of pager: Al Gross (Jewish)
Inventor of USB memory stick: Dov Moran (Jewish)
Inventor of Computer: John von Neumann (Jewish)
Inventor of hydrogen bomb: Edward Teller (Jewish)
Inventor of atomic bomb: J. R. Oppenheimer (Jewish)
Inventor of Barbie: Ruth Handler (Jewish)
Inventor of Jeans: Levi Strauss (Jewish)
Inventor of camera phone: Philippe Kahn (Jewish)
Inventor of instant camera: E. H. Land (Jewish)
Inventor of microphone: Emile Berliner (Jewish)
Inventor of gaming console: Ralph Baer (Jewish)
Inventor of microprocessor: Stanley Mazor (Jewish)
Inventor of Google: Larry Page (Jewish)
Inventor of Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg (Jewish)
Inventor of Android: Andy Rubin (Jewish)
Inventor of PayPal: Max Levchin (Jewish)
Inventor of birth control pill: G. G. Pincus (Jewish)
Inventor of polio vaccine: Jonas Salk (Jewish)