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Why do Northeast Asians win so few Nobel Prizes?
1Kenya Kura Faculty of Economics and Information, Gifu Shotoku Gakuen University, Gifu, Japan
Jan te Nijenhuis Work and Organizational Psychology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Edward Dutton Cultural Anthropology, University of Oulu, Finland
Abstract
Most scientifi c discoveries have originated from Europe, and Europeans havewon 20 times more Nobel Prizes than have Northeast Asians. We argue that thisis explained not by IQ, but by interracial personality diff erences, underpinned bydiff erences in gene distribution. In particular, the variance in scientifi c achievement is explained by diff erences in inquisitiveness (DRD4 7-repeat), psychological stability (5HTTLPR long form), and individualism (mu-opioid receptor gene;OPRM1 G allele ). Northeast Asians tend to be lower in these psychological traits,which we argue are necessary for exceptional scientifi c accomplishments. Sincethese traits comprise a positive matrix, we constructed a q index (measuring curiosity) from these gene frequencies among world populations. It is found thatboth IQ scores and q index contribute signifi cantly to the number of per capitaNobel Prizes.
