Right now, there’s no evidence to indicate that certain populations are more intelligent than other populations, but brain drain risks changing that. The US, for example, selects for only the brightest immigrants, and all the population growth in the US is due to immigration. The developing world is being continually depleted of those with a genetic predisposition for high intelligence, while the developed world is continually receiving high intelligence genes. The unsettling result of this process could be the formation in the developed world of populations that are innately more intelligent than other populations, which would give the first world an unfair advantage and forever prevent the global south from catching up with it economically. Or is this an incorrect prediction?
Comments
Thanks for your question to /r/AskSocialScience. All posters, please remember that this subreddit requires peer-reviewed, cited sources (Please see Rule 1 and 3). All posts that do not have citations will be removed by AutoMod. Circumvention by posting unrelated link text is grounds for a ban. Well sourced comprehensive answers take time. If you’re interested in the subject, and you don’t see a reasonable answer, please consider [clicking Here for RemindMeBot](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose/?to=RemindMeBot&subject=Reminder&message=AskSocialScience Reminder).
I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.
[removed]
[removed]