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deadnomore • today at 6:32 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

I’m going to save this joke for parties. Damn you a funny guy.


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vladgur • today at 6:50 PM

The grand parent is not wrong -- 22 to 25% of individual nobel prize winners in 20th and 21st century were of Jewish descent.

Although laureats of Asian descent have been on the sharpest upward trajector in the recent decades

Sources:

https://www.jinfo.org/Nobel_Prizes.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Asian_Nobel_laureates

logicchains • today at 6:43 PM

Here's a study backing it up: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-biosocial... (the lead author is from Tel Aviv University so hardly some antisemitic crackpot).

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