Bad form to reply to my own message, but this is important.

If the finding of a slightly higher Ashkenazi Jewish IQ score is accurage (if!), the proposed mechanism of centuries of rejecting Jewish children should make this finding a mark of shame.

It means we Jews are inheritors of a culture that regularly rejected our own children, regularly ranked them, regularly preferred our most intelligent children over our other children.

Even if we no longer do this in our families, if we continue that attitude of favoring intelligence over other attributes (and it's hard to deny that we do that... it's a cultural stereotype that still seems to be true today), we are continuing a very unfortunate intellectual/religious/social habit and projecting that value on to our society at large.

It is a fine line between valuing intellectual achievement and excessively valuing intellectual achievement. Whether we are rewarding intellectual ability with the resources needed to make more babies and ensure a genetic future for oneself...or whether we are rewarding it with higher salaries and social position, if we are rewarding people for an innate genetic characteristic (and not simply effort and hard work), then we are on very problematic ethical ground.

We Jews, if we have victimized our own children by excluding them from our community for centuries when they failed to live up to our intellectual standards, should be on the forefront of opposing the victimization of people on the basis of failing to posses some intellectual or other capacity, and obviously we shouldn't do this to our own children. This whole theory points to our own Jewish need for some tikun olam... some world repairing... and some repentance (if it is true that we have done this.)

The socio-genetic model of IQ selection (at least one model of it) suggests also that "our children" are out there in the non-Jewish community and this also connects us as family to the larger non-Jewish world.

It also suggests that we have some heavy karma to consider regarding what our culture and ancestors have done to cast out our own children.

And on the contrary a culture/group with a more average IQ score can in effect say to us "we have all of our children... do you?"

Of course that is just a metaphor. It doesn't really matter what happened in the past. What matters is that we recognize that we (all of human society) need to accept "all of our children", regardless of intelligence or other genetically influenced traits, as our own, and ensure a personal future for them and a genetic future for them if they want it. That means taking pride in the full range of human capabilities, and helping people reach those capabilities.

I'm not advocating "anti-intellectualism"... but "pro-intellectualism" is a problem, and perhaps the echo of a big Jewish problem. Being smart is nothing to be proud of if this is the story of why you are smart. This socio-genetic theory of intelligence is a particular problem for the Jewish culture of which I am a part. It raises for me dark questions about our past.