As it turns out, the author of this lesson (Dashiell Young-Saver, pictured at left) is a descendent of the mostly “moron grade” Jews that immigrated to the U.S. in the early 1900s. He would like to point out some interesting figures. Today, Jews are 3% of the U.S. and 0.2% of the world population. Yet, they make up:
- 36% of U.S. Nobel winners, 20% of all Nobel prizes (humanities & sciences), and 23% of all Fields Medals winners (mathematics) [1]
- 16% of Ivy League students (Harvard, Yale, etc.) [2]
The 1917 report quoted on the previous slide has since been discredited, with modern commentators pointing out serious flaws in its findings. What might those flaws have been?