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Poll: Do stupid people breeding lower average IQ?
(Vote): Yes
(Vote): No
(Vote): I have 5 kids... who y'all callin dumb?
They have too many kids at earlier ages ==> society gets dumber. Do you agree?
Also, an interesting sidenote is that since the average democrat voter (more highly educated) has about .3 less children per generation than the average republican voter, this country will become more and more republican as time wears on.
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.
 
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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.
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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.
But it is true that family will have heavy influence on the political thoughts of a child.
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I can't remember where I saw it, but I recently read about a recent study that demonstrated how education level was inversely associated with how many children couples had.
Then again, there are alot more factors than parents. Kids these days have access to a wealth of information through the internet, TV, etc, while working parents are less and less at the center of their upbringing.
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Chinese is the most spoken language in the world thanks to the massive population size. While there are many different factors that contribute to dumbing down, I agree if you put it at the reproductive level... And if you throw in immigration, education, etc... still yes.
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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.
Agreed.
I had to laugh that you typed 'democraft', though. I don't know if that was intentionally snuck in there, or you've just typed 'starcraft' a few too many times, haha.
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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?
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they do but this has nothing to do with politics
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This sentence should be written
"Does stupid people's breeding lower IQ?"
So I'll vote ... no?
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People hopefully will vote according to their desires/needs. It doesn't make them stupid to vote in a way that will benefit them most.
That said, there are lots of ways to make people vote in ways that do not benefit them, IE CNN. I don't know if that makes them particularly stupid or not.
There's average intelligence people, which I'd say make up 95% or so of the population. Their votes are determined by what they see in the media and what their friends tell them. The remaining 5% are either excessively dumb, and need no consideration, or extremely smart, and will hopefully guide the masses of average intelligence people. I'd say the OP of this thread is either average, or excessively dumb.
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On November 09 2008 09:19 Chef wrote:
There's average intelligence people, which I'd say make up 95% or so of the population. Their votes are determined by what they see in the media and what their friends tell them. The remaining 5% are either excessively dumb, and need no consideration, or extremely smart, and will hopefully guide the masses of average intelligence people. I'd say the OP of this thread is either average, or excessively dumb.
That's a very odd definition of average. Also it's absurd to say people are either average, really dumb, or really smart. There's no sensible way to describe a sudden gap between "normal person" and "smart person", you get everything in between. Although, since we're on the topic of baseless assumptions, relatively speaking I'd say you're acting excessively dumb.
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I agree with both your points. Men and women who can barely work a cashregister or a forklift have more children then the university alumni. The uneducated tier is having babies at 17 18. Extrapolate 100 years---->Oh sh....!
The avarage IQ remains the same as it is an index. Scores get adjusted and questions dumbed down or spiced up. People have become better at IQ tests due to better education and change in the nature of the jobmarket in the last few decenia.
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IQ is normalized so i dont think it has any effect
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On November 09 2008 09:28 Nytefish wrote:Show nested quote +On November 09 2008 09:19 Chef wrote:
There's average intelligence people, which I'd say make up 95% or so of the population. Their votes are determined by what they see in the media and what their friends tell them. The remaining 5% are either excessively dumb, and need no consideration, or extremely smart, and will hopefully guide the masses of average intelligence people. I'd say the OP of this thread is either average, or excessively dumb. That's a very odd definition of average. Also it's absurd to say people are either average, really dumb, or really smart. There's no sensible way to describe a sudden gap between "normal person" and "smart person", you get everything in between. Although, since we're on the topic of baseless assumptions, relatively speaking I'd say you're acting excessively dumb.
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.
The difference between people of what I've called average intelligence is negligible and meaningless. However, in my own subjective opinion, this average level of intelligence is not good enough to ensure a prosperous future for humanity, and you definitely belong to it.
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This is all cos of that korn video...
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Since IQ is normalized around the number 100, the average will always stay at 100.
Edit: geo beat me to it.
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stupid people drink alot with other stupid people
leads to unsafe behavior becaue they are stupid nad dont hink about consequences
smart people stay in their labs curing diseases and stuff, doesnt really give them much opportunity for meeting hot chicks that always have their legs open to guys
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On November 09 2008 09:53 stenole wrote:
Since IQ is normalized around the number 100, the average will always stay at 100.
Edit: geo beat me to it.
You can't say you didn't get his point though  What 100 IQ means is the thing he's clearly talking about (even if he can't properly describe it himself).
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American society tends to protect people who are born when they shouldn't have been, rather than grind them into the dirt. I'd guess this promotes a system where the dumb people who reproduce when they shouldn't bring down the average human intelligence.
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