EPTstupid people outbreed smart people - Page 2
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Tadzio
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gg_hertzz
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KlaCkoN
Sweden1661 Posts
So yeah, it does. | ||
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daz
Canada643 Posts
On November 09 2008 10:49 KlaCkoN wrote: I read a study recently which concluded that the average brain size had decreased ca 10 % (don't quote me on this number) the last 1000 years. So yeah, it does. yeah because you know people were really smart 1000 years ago in the DARK AGES | ||
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Nytefish
United Kingdom4282 Posts
On November 09 2008 09:48 Chef wrote: Most people I meet everyday have about the same capacity for achievement. Once in awhile I'll meet someone really mindbogglingly smart that obviously just has the genetics to be better than everyone else. Likewise, once in awhile I'll walk past the special education classes. This is like a newbie calling anyone higher than C rank "pro". They can't tell the difference between a pro-gamer and C rank player because they are so much worse than both of them. Basically, you haven't met enough "smart" people. | ||
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sigma_x
Australia285 Posts
On November 09 2008 08:49 t_co wrote: And, hostility to abortion and same-sex marriage is also correlated with having more children. Hence these issues may become resolved two or three generations down the road. This is so ridiculous that it needs only to be stated, to be refuted. | ||
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SpiralArchitect
United States2116 Posts
On November 09 2008 09:10 soudo wrote: Question: Did the OP just finish watching Idiocracy when he posted this? If so, he totally didn't get the message at all. Second, being democrat, republican, or how smart you are has nothing to do with how many kids you have. It's about how much wealth you have. The more wealth you have, the higher the opportunity cost it is to raise a child. Example: Say some woman makes $1000 a month. She then goes on maternity leave and can't work for 9 of months. She loses $9000. Now take a housewife. While the housewife is pregnant, she loses $0 since she brings in no income. The cost of raising a child for the housewife is a lot less than the other one. Both have to deal with the cost of providing for the child, but the working woman also has to deal with losses in wages. Side note, don't you think you should check for your grammar when you're posting about how stupid other people are? Lol? Making babies aint about wealth man. In fact fucking is one of the few things that everyone can do no matter how poor or how rich you are. There are increased amount of children amongst the lower class for quite a few reasons but the obvious ones are 1) Theres more poor people than rich people 2) People like to have sex 3) Lower class people are less educated or dont care about contraception. Plenty of destitute crack whores give birth every day man. | ||
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KaasZerg
Netherlands927 Posts
You will be amazed how many women of 80 IQ or lower get pregnant and choose to keep the baby. They don't know anything else to do with their live. Yeah later Social workers, adoption or other drama. | ||
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Hypnosis
United States2061 Posts
On November 09 2008 09:10 soudo wrote: Question: Did the OP just finish watching Idiocracy when he posted this? If so, he totally didn't get the message at all. Second, being democrat, republican, or how smart you are has nothing to do with how many kids you have. It's about how much wealth you have. The more wealth you have, the higher the opportunity cost it is to raise a child. Example: Say some woman makes $1000 a month. She then goes on maternity leave and can't work for 9 of months. She loses $9000. Now take a housewife. While the housewife is pregnant, she loses $0 since she brings in no income. The cost of raising a child for the housewife is a lot less than the other one. Both have to deal with the cost of providing for the child, but the working woman also has to deal with losses in wages. Side note, don't you think you should check for your grammar when you're posting about how stupid other people are? people ahve children regardless of how much money they have, its totally unrelated. This is why people are stupid they dont think.. So you think that a rich house wife will have like 9 kids because she doesnt lose money on it? lol | ||
cgrinker
United States3824 Posts
On November 09 2008 08:50 XCetron wrote: No, since you're implying all kids that are raised in a republican family will become republican, and same thing with democraft. Have you factored in Immigration? Most immigrants to US tend to be democrats. I disagree. A lot of Latino families are "value voters" because of the whole Catholicism thing. | ||
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SiegeTanksandBlueGoo
China685 Posts
SMART PEOPLE HAVE MOAR KIDS NOW. Seriously though, this is just a eugenics argument. There's a lot of good arguments on both sides. Personally, I'm all for smart people reproducing. Honestly though, you really have to convince smart people to have a lot more kids. Also, you need to define smart. Technically, we can eventually raise the bar of smartness until the OP or anyone on TL.net is not smart enough to reproduce. I don't think the OP would like that. | ||
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Fen
Australia1848 Posts
What is important to note however, is there is always going to be more jobs out there for cleaners, gas station attendants, ppl working on checkout etc. than there will be lawyers, doctors, engineers etc. So it all evens out to a strong workforce. Imagine if it was the other way around, you would have really intelligent people being forced to work as a shop assistant when they could be doing soo much more. | ||
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PH
United States6173 Posts
In all honesty, I think it's most comforting to just not think about all this stuff...be apathetic and just play starcraft... -____- Whenever I do sit down and think about this shit, I end up getting depressed and unmotivated from the overwhelming feeling of futility it brings on. ugh. On November 09 2008 09:10 soudo wrote: Question: Did the OP just finish watching Idiocracy when he posted this? If so, he totally didn't get the message at all. Second, being democrat, republican, or how smart you are has nothing to do with how many kids you have. It's about how much wealth you have. The more wealth you have, the higher the opportunity cost it is to raise a child. Example: Say some woman makes $1000 a month. She then goes on maternity leave and can't work for 9 of months. She loses $9000. Now take a housewife. While the housewife is pregnant, she loses $0 since she brings in no income. The cost of raising a child for the housewife is a lot less than the other one. Both have to deal with the cost of providing for the child, but the working woman also has to deal with losses in wages. Side note, don't you think you should check for your grammar when you're posting about how stupid other people are? That's hardly the long and short of it...you also have to take into account culture, population density of the area, cost of living in the area, and whatever else. If anything, it's been shown that wealthier people produce LESS children than their opposites. That's what the OP of this blog is bringing up. | ||
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Ecael
United States6703 Posts
What's with all the people somehow taking soudo's comment as "Wealthy people will have lots of kids" when he is noting the higher relative cost for them to breed. | ||
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village_idiot
2436 Posts
In this case dumb people are more fit to survive than them smart folks, which is pretty funny. | ||
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il0seonpurpose
Korea (South)5638 Posts
We also need to see who the sample was, and what location and bla bla bla, statistics stuff, make sure its not bias. | ||
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Hippopotamus
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shuriken93
United States13 Posts
On November 09 2008 08:50 XCetron wrote: No, since you're implying all kids that are raised in a republican family will become republican, and same thing with democraft. Have you factored in Immigration? Most immigrants to US tend to be democrats. Family is the biggest influence on your political beliefs imo >.> | ||
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-orb-
United States5770 Posts
On November 09 2008 08:50 XCetron wrote: No, since you're implying all kids that are raised in a republican family will become republican, and same thing with democraft. Have you factored in Immigration? Most immigrants to US tend to be democrats. The OP's main point was about stupidity, not political party, and if people that are genetically (not just learnedly) stupid breed and make more genetically stupid people, we will get an overall lower IQ. | ||
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shuriken93
United States13 Posts
On November 09 2008 13:53 Fen wrote: IQ scale is always going to have an average of 100. The relative intelligence of somone who scores 100 in a test is going to go down however. What is important to note however, is there is always going to be more jobs out there for cleaners, gas station attendants, ppl working on checkout etc. than there will be lawyers, doctors, engineers etc. So it all evens out to a strong workforce. Imagine if it was the other way around, you would have really intelligent people being forced to work as a shop assistant when they could be doing soo much more. If everyone was smart we wouldn't need people to do simple jobs because they would make a bunch of robots to do everything for us!!! ;D | ||
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