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Thanks, good comment. The quick low-effort version that doesn't require actually writing the posts is that without taking heritable IQ into account, I think you will be confused about:
Why Israel is so good at defending itself even against far larger countries surrounding it (and the last few centuries of Jewish history more generally).
Why the growth curves for East Asia and Africa looked so different over the last century.