Holocaust made Jews smarter?

because it was mostly the dumb one who got sent off to the camps.  whereas only a few of the smarter ones managed to get away.  this is known as the "bottleneck effect" and it can dramatically change a populations genetics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_bottleneck

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Intelligence

Jews reached a population bottleneck in the 14th Century at the height of the Black Death when they were widely blamed for the plague. This small population allowed a few random genetic changes (genetic drift) to take root as they could not do so in a larger population that resists drift.

It had to have happened much earlier than the holocaust because that couldn't account for why the entire population currently has a higher average.

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Either you're a troll or you're a poor example of intelligence. Ashkenazi have normal visual-spatial scores but higher verbal scores, strange, considering you can't spell "belive," "schuld," and most strangely "intellegent."

"Intellegence" indeed.