The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - Do We Have the Necessary Evidence Against Open Borders？ (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_965)

00:00:00.280 Hi everybody, this is Ghat Saad. Some of you who follow my work might remember when I explained

00:00:07.180 my doctoral dissertation from way back in 1994. For those of you who may not remember,

00:00:14.860 my doctoral dissertation was in the area of psychology of decision making. Specifically,

00:00:20.120 it looked at how much information do you need to acquire between two competing alternatives

00:00:27.300 for you to stop acquiring additional information and commit to a choice. And so this is known as a

00:00:34.260 sequential binary choice model. And what you basically do, you have these stopping thresholds

00:00:42.820 where you accumulate evidence either in support of alternative A or alternative B until you reach

00:00:50.020 one of the two stopping thresholds. If you reach the stopping threshold of alternative A, you stop

00:00:55.520 acquiring additional information, you choose alternative A or the same thing for alternative

00:01:00.240 B. And I will put a link to an episode I had done where I had explained that work. And the power of

00:01:10.240 that doctoral dissertation, if I can speak of my own work, is that it really explains the cognitive

00:01:17.640 processes that exactly defines how people make decisions irrespective of the decisions that they

00:01:25.720 are making, whether it be choosing between prospective spouses to marry or apartments to rent or political

00:01:35.800 candidates to vote for. And I took this principle and I applied it in other contexts, in an epistemological

00:01:42.600 context, which I won't get into here. But what I wanted to do today is use that stopping threshold model

00:01:50.760 to explore how much evidence would you need to acquire before you stop and agree that the open border

00:02:02.120 policies of the West are terribly detrimental, suicidally, empathetically so, or no, they're wonderful. And so you can

00:02:11.720 acquire information, different sources of information until you either reach the threshold that tells

00:02:18.680 you open borders are a bad idea or open borders are a great idea. Now, I would posit to you that we have

00:02:27.480 certainly collected more than enough information in the order of orders of magnitude more than is needed

00:02:35.960 to suggest that the experiment has failed so much so that it has resulted in the possible death spiral of

00:02:44.520 many Western societies. But yet so many people continue to say, no, there is no such evidence or they can speak,

00:02:52.840 they, you know, they could talk away or rationalize away that evidence. So I would say to you,

00:02:58.440 you does, let's say, having hundreds of thousands of white British girls being raped in the most horrific ways 0.97

00:03:09.320 by predominantly Pakistani Muslim men in Britain, does that suggest something? Does it move you 0.97

00:03:19.160 towards one of the thresholds versus the other? The massive exponential increase in sexual assaults and

00:03:30.040 rapes throughout Western Europe stemming overwhelmingly from one group? They may come from many different

00:03:37.960 countries, but they share one thing in common. They're all co-religionist. Does that suggest that

00:03:44.920 we have some evidence? The fact that there is massive number of no-go zones in many Western cities? The fact that

00:03:55.400 civic society is slowly unraveling in countless ways, public prayers in position of certain food edicts that are

00:04:06.600 religious based on the rest of us, unique accommodations for one group, and on and on and on. The fact that I took a

00:04:19.400 two-year leave from my home university in Canada because it was becoming dangerous for me to be there. The fact

00:04:26.680 that there are now cities in the United States that are starting to exhibit the same kinds of tendencies that

00:04:34.520 you see everywhere else in Western Europe. The fact that there has been, you know, billions of dollars

00:04:41.800 stolen from Somali immigrants in the United States. They weren't Vietnamese, they weren't from Jamaica, they

00:04:49.800 weren't Nigerian, they weren't Orthodox Jews. They come from one particular mindset. 0.98

00:04:58.280 Now, I was going to actually take the time to sit and, you know, list all of the evidence that would suggest that we

00:05:09.960 crossed the stopping threshold of open borders being a disaster, a suicidal disaster. I could have done all

00:05:18.840 that, but I don't need to because rather I'd like to flip the question to you. If you are watching this clip

00:05:26.760 today and you're still someone who says, you know what, I think open borders are a fantastic idea. I think

00:05:34.920 more Islamic immigration is a wonderful addition to the West. Fair enough. What would be the evidence that you 0.99

00:05:44.280 would need to see in order for you to perhaps revisit your lovely, compassionate, and empathetic ethos.

00:05:57.960 Take care, everybody.

The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - February 10, 2026