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Only because the general public is so... average (pretty dumb).

If the average person had a 10 or 15 point higher IQ, I think people would put a higher value on intelligence in their elected officials.

I think that the world would look a lot different (better) if the average intelligence was raised by this much. So many things would change. A dawn of a new era.




Israel sounds like it would be a natural experiment for that hypothesis.

I hope you are right but it doesn't quite look that way.




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