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Garett Jones - Immigration, National IQ, & Less Democracy

Dwarkesh Podcast

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The Median Voter Theorem

Timothy Stanley: If you had to split apart the contribution of migrants on, let's say, the culture versus the impact that migrants have on a country by voting in their political system, it would be 50-50. He says there are few countries where mean IQ is the best predictor of productivity compared to elite IQ. Stanley: The risks of crime from the lower end is basically like a probabilistic risk. It's not like some zero to one switch or anything.

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