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Neurosis
Jun 10, 2003
Fallen Rib
birth rates of developed countries are hosed. singapore and hong kong are at 1.2. south korea is 1.24. taiwan got down to 0.9 in 2010 and has now bounced back to a fecund 1.12. japan is 1.46. i wonder if you broke down by intelligence within these countries if the numbers for the iq 120+ crowd would be even worse.

maybe we will have to push women back in the kitchen if you want the models of people with proven track records to procreate more (i would hope we figure out some better solution than that b c it is pretty offensive).

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Neurosis
Jun 10, 2003
Fallen Rib

Vaginal Vagrant posted:

136 United States 1.9
137 Australia 1.9
138 United Kingdom 1.8

oh no!

Replacement is 2.1, and there's a negative correlation between intelligence and birth rates within those populations, so dysgenics is in effect

Neurosis
Jun 10, 2003
Fallen Rib

Duckbag posted:

Ideocracy was just a movie. Please don't use it to revive eugenics.

allow me to blow your mind: intelligence is significantly hereditary.

Neurosis
Jun 10, 2003
Fallen Rib

Inescapable Duck posted:

Doesn't intelligence correlate directly with the parents' wealth

wealth is partly caused by intelligence. and unless you're saying that differences in intelligence are only explained by wealth and if we make poor people wealthier any differences in intelligence will disappear that still doesn't address the problem that the smarter people are the fewer kids they have.

Neurosis
Jun 10, 2003
Fallen Rib

Pajser posted:

and here i thought idiocy was caused by lack of access to education

so intelligence is only determined by environment. gotcha.

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Neurosis
Jun 10, 2003
Fallen Rib

Pajser posted:

oh schools just grow like trees, right?

are you being intentionally dense in the purpose of making poo poo jokes i'm finding it really hard to tell

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