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Garett Jones - Immigration, National IQ, & Less Democracy

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Is the Market Allocation of Intelligence Correct?

Sally Kohn: What is the optimal allocation of intelligence across the country? She says one answer, and I guess is the default answer in our society, is you just send them where they can get paid the most because that's a good enough proxy for how they're contributing. Kohn: But there was an interesting anecdotal evidence that during the Great Depression, the crime in New York went down a ton. And that was because the cops in New York were able to hire the best and brightest.

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