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