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"But it's not clear whether this is a causal story or a selection story".
This makes it very unlikely that a reasonable selection story can account for these findings.
What interests them is a proposed equivalence between being able to tell the selection story one way, in terms of interactors and replicators, and to tell the same story another way, purely in terms of "genic agency".
In a sense, German citizenship may just be identifying those who are 'of better types', i.e. there may be a positive correlation between German citizenship and certain unobserved personality traits, so the effect we are picking up is a selection story not a 'jump' in subjective well-being due to obtaining citizenship.
For a given selection story to be descriptively valid, a "Darwinian population" must exist at the level of selection being described, which requires the presence of both an interactor and a reproducer at that level, thus putting together what others have pulled apart (2009, p. 112).
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