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If this would be true, we'd already live here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy
by mkesper 12y ago
If this would be true, we'd already live here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy
- rjempson 12y agoI should watch that movie, could be amusing. However I'm not sure I understand what you mean. I don't think the study reached a conclusion as to how many children someone might have, merely that the sperm quality was higher/lower.
- diggan 12y agoThe movie gives the view that dumber people get more kids compared to smart people. So the world will, after a point, contain more dumb people than smart people because they simply breed more.
- T-A 12y agoUnless there are other compensating factors, like dumb people having higher mortality rates?
- riffraff 12y agothe movie posits the dumb people reproduce faster because they start sooner (i.e. football guy gets cheerleader pregnant when 16, smart girl waits to have a career before getting pregnant) and since getting to reproductive maturity doesn't need special skills it still works out in favor of dumb people (i.e. by the time smart couple has 1 kid dumb couple has >=1 and their descendents have >=1).
- JoeAltmaier 12y agoAge of reproduction unrelated to smarts. More like hormones.
- nbouscal 12y agoMore like socioeconomic status. http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/FB-Unintended-Pregnancy-US.html http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/FB-Unintended-Pregnancy-US.ht...
- riffraff 12y agoyou misinterpreted me, I was referring to what is actually shown in the movie not arguing that sporty people get kids earlier :)
- chiph 12y agoOr going on the TV show "Oww my balls"
- luxpir 12y agoDoesn't the standard IQ (I know, I know) bell-curve indicate that the majority of humans are less intelligent than the most intelligent? [1] I suppose the question is how much less intelligent does the majority have to be for the world to look like Idiocracy? How likely is that to happen, given the communication tech and education options that are emerging? EDIT: [1] Fair point, riffraff. Actually quite tough for me to rephrase without spending significant time on it (I'm clearly not in the minority...), how about: "the most intelligent humans (by IQ) are naturally in the minority, as with any natural distribution/bell-curve, meaning the 'less intelligent' majority already dominate, as in Idiocracy, and by definition they must always continue to do so". That's a mouthful, but I hope the point is clear enough.
- riffraff 12y agoI think you should rephrase your first line, as it would seem to me the majority of anything is always less anything than the top. (i.e. half of the people are of below average intelligence)
- judk 12y agoIn a constant distribution, the majority equals the max. Some phenomena ate approximately constant. (How many eyes do you have?)
- madengr 12y agoIn other words, the mean is less than the median.