[rjempson]

I 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]

The 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]

Unless there are other compensating factors, like dumb people having higher mortality rates?

[riffraff]

the 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]

Age of reproduction unrelated to smarts. More like hormones.

[nbouscal]

More like socioeconomic status.

http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/FB-Unintended-Pregnancy-US.ht...

[riffraff]

you misinterpreted me, I was referring to what is actually shown in the movie not arguing that sporty people get kids earlier :)

[chiph]

Or going on the TV show "Oww my balls"