The emigration of highly skilled or educated individuals from developing countries to developed nations, discussed as a form of neocolonialism that leaves origin countries impoverished of talent.
"Emigration does certainly select for intelligence, but in my experience that's not the primary selector, which is why the term 'brain drain' is misleading. I think if you were to compare the average intelligence of residents of this country's capital and say, Berlin, it wouldn't be all that differen"