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jedberglast Saturday at 7:19 PM2 repliesview on HN

It's a simple matter of math. The USA has less than 5% of the world's population. It's statistically impossible for that 5% to be the smartest 5% in the world. Therefore, if we want the smartest people in the world, we have to allow immigrants.


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hallolelast Saturday at 7:58 PM

The smartest aren't uniformly distributed across the Earth.

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jerkstatelast Saturday at 7:35 PM

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