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So you don't even engage with my argument? I am not contradicting myself, my point is that narrative-crafting correlates with the ability to have the speaker's biases be internalized in public consciousness, those who are consumers of those narratives, that argument does not rely on the premise "Narrative-crafting ability is correlated with falsehood in the speaker's statements." Somebody who is poor at narrative crafting could have no less bias than than the person good at narrative crafting, but the latter gets to make his own biases "common sense" that could be no other way.
The correlation you are proposing is not my argument. IQ correlating with "a talent for deceiving other people with false or self-serving narratives" is not equivalent to "narrative-crafting ability is correlated with falsehood in the speaker's statements", it means the speaker is more effective at signal-boosting his own particular biases and falsehoods as common sense or collectively-held truths.
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