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Given that intelligence is ~60% genetic, if well-educated people are having kids less, then are we going to start getting dumber?
by John7878781 5mo ago
Given that intelligence is ~60% genetic, if well-educated people are having kids less, then are we going to start getting dumber?
- liglam 5mo ago[dead]
- FuriouslyAdrift 5mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy
- eudamoniac 5mo agoYes, definitely. Or at least there will be negative evolutionary pressure on intelligence; it might still go up from other pressures.
- seinvak 5mo agoEducation doesn't imply intelligence. 90% of humanity that has ever lived has probably never read a word.
- manquer 5mo agoLiteracy is not education either ?.