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Garett Jones - Immigration, National IQ, & Less Democracy

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The Innovation of the Elite IQ Matters More Than the Left Tail

I think that hurting the mean and median is actually a big cost, especially democracies. And so that is very likely to swam the benefits of the small probability of getting higher elite folks in as part of a low-skilled immigration policy. So then since we're killing them by the deviation anyways, more immigration might increase the deviation. Then we just, that's a good thing.

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