Episcopalians v. Jews on IQ

Steve Sailer

10/28/2009

One commenter makes the point that on some tests of intelligence measures, Episcopalians outscore Jews.

The evidence is mixed.

Inductivist looked at the average scores on the ten word vocabulary test included in the General Social Survey and found:

Mean IQ for whites

Episcopalian 109.9
Lutheran 107.4
Mormon 105.7
Presbyterian 102.3
United Methodists 101.8
Southern Baptists 98.0
Assembly of God 94.5
Pentecostal 92.2

In the post-Civil War period, it was common for ambitious young men flocking to New York to make it big in business to convert to Episcopalianism. That way older business leaders who were Episcopalians could see you were in church every Sunday. A lot of the converts were coming from post-Puritan religions such as Congregationalism, or from Methodism. So, Episcopalianism became very upper class. That’s why some upper crust boarding schools have Catholic-sounding names like "St. Paul’s" — Episcopalianism is Anglicanism (i.e., Church of England) which, due to Henry VIII, was Catholicism minus the pope and plus divorce. Arthur Hu has the 1990 average SAT scores by religion and by race. Note that scores averaged about 100 points lower than today before "recentering" in mid-1995. The two letter prefixes refer to race (Wh = white, AS = Asian, Al = All, etc.). In this, white Episcopals barely outscored black Unitarians, and were 60 points behind Jews.

Race Religion   Number  Math + Verbal SATWh Unitarian   1,745  1073Wh Quaker    894  1037Wh Judaism    25,600  1030 * Jewish AvgAl Quaker   1,009  1029As Hindu    4138  1029Al Judaism    27,374  1026As Presbyterian  3195  1022As Angelican    197  1019Al Hindu   4,741  1012Wh Hindu     82  1004As No Pref    17987  1001As U Methodist   662 998Wh Mennonite    952 990As Unitarian   49 986As Episcopal    444 983Wh Chistian Sci   830 979Wh No Pref    99,076 979Al Mennonite   1,063 974As Methodist    1108 973As Quaker    25 973Wh Mormon   6,400 972Wh Episcopal   19,555 970As S Baptist Conv  332 966Af Unitarian   64 966 *Top BlackAl No Pref   137,305 963Wh Luth Missouri   8,038 963Wh Un Church of Christ  7,066 962As Wesleyan   32 960Al Luth Missouri   8,624 959Al Episcopal   22,109 957* EpiscopalWh Presbyterian   32,019 956Wh Angelican   1,765 956Al Chistian Sci   989 955Al Presbyterian   37,353 955* PresbyterianAl Un Church of Christ 7826 951Wh U Methodist  23,470 949Al Mormon   7,594 948Wh Other   20,125 947Wh Lutheran in Am  23,380 943As Christn Reformed   298 943Wh No Answer   44,397 942Al U Methodist  26,037 939Wh Afr Methodist  144 939As Total   70739 938* Asian AvgWh S Baptist Conv  14,165 938Al Lutheran in Am  25,020 937Wh Total    688,933 934* White AvgAs Lutheran in Am  471 931As Un Church of Christ 253 930Al S Baptist Conv  15,729 929As Judaism   218 925Wh Christn Reformed  2,235 924As Baptist   3003 924As Islam    2184 923

And here’s a 2002 report on high SAT scoring groups from Gene Expression:

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