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I think it has to do with a declining IQ score among Western nations. There are simply not enough employees with the education and competentency level required

• dsq 4y ago
  This is probably a very real problem. Perhaps not biological IQ per se, but culturally Western populations have been dumbed down significantly over the past few decades. This is actually my only objection to nuclear power: it requires a certain level of technical savvy in the populace to supply the engineers and technicians, which sadly our lawyer-ruled society does not appreciate.
  • trashtester 4y ago
    When von Neumann divided two numbers of 8 digits each in his head at age 8, biology was probably a factor.
    • dsq 4y ago
      Absolutely. No amount of lipstick can transform a pig into a prince[ss], but sadly GIGO still holds and the trash in the ether distracts and stupefies. That is, you can make a potentially smart person into a dumb one.
      • trashtester 4y ago
        20 years ago, I was talking with a co-worker, the HR director in the company I used to work in back then. Her background was a PhD in horse breeding. We talked about topics such as this. She said, based on her background with horses and by watching which of her friends had the most kids, she was not very optimistic about future generations. From the stats, it looks like it is only the rich (7 digits) and the very poorest that currently have fertility above the replacement rate: https://twitter.com/CSchmert/status/993934031174725632/photo/1 https://twitter.com/CSchmert/status/993934031174725632/photo... How much that affects the genes, is hard to say, apart from what the horse-breeder's gut feeling was.