Referring to the Jewish comment. I think adversity had a lot to do with it. Though the children of war-time or immigrant Jews really pushed their kids, this generation -- not so much. In the 60s and 70s, Styvescant was considered the "Jewish high school" now it is mostly Asian. You have Asian parents dealing with adversity, being immigrant, struggling with nothing. And they push their kids to succeed.

Or someone can just do the "research" and say they have a higher average IQ than those Jews....

Dealing with adversity usually means striving for a goal beyond adversity. Without any adversity, you just go chugging along, no matter how smart your brain started out to be.


Ren