Dimitry Toukhcher

And it's funny how...

Another interesting argument I see, I'm just looking at data here, right?

It's like, oh, you know, these Jews are all a bunch of inbreds.

And I see this data.

I think it's the funniest argument because Pakistan has a 63, 64% rate of consanguineous marriage to first cousins.

Over 172 million Pakistanis today are the products of first cousin marriage.

172 million.

And again, people want to point at one thing and they attack it.

And yet there's another thing that's exactly the thing they're supposedly against, but it's not the thing they're attacking.

And that's misinformation in a nutshell.

It's very scary.

It is a lot lower.

It's also concentrated towards a lower mean.

And if you actually look at the curves and distributions, what you realize is something like 15% of those populations are roughly the IQ of a fairly intelligent chimp.

And so I'm not going to talk about specific examples, but you do have that as a big problem in the Middle Eastern region.

And when you have countries or regions with very high rates of consanguineous marriage, what you also have are completely different value systems and how they solve for problems.

Now imagine if you were living in Las Vegas today, and right next door you have California, and like 60% of Californians are inbred.

And they're trying to kill you all the time.

You would have a very different life experience.

But also, negotiating with that crowd would be very different.