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Re: Future of Humanity (was: lotsa stuff)
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Mon, 29 Oct 2001 20:51:22 GMT
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Ross Crawford wrote:
> > This is an interesting point. It is a generaisation, but in the UK low
> > income families tend to have more kids than higher earners. Many couples
> > (married or otherwsie) decide to have only one or no kids at all. If we
> > assume (again a generisation) that low income familes have lower levels of
> > intelligence (measured by lower levels of educational attainment) is our
> > gene pool geing skewed the wrong way?
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> Is there a "wrong way"?
I would think that most people with at least middling intelligence would tend to
agree that decreasing the overall intelligence level of our species is the "wrong
way".
Do you have a reason to think that decreasing our species intelligence is the right
way to go?
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| (...) Though admittedly a generalization, this trend in intelligence:breeding rate is based on an evolutionarily insignificant stretch of time. Further, even in the hypothetical example, the judging of intelligence based on academic achievement (...) (25 years ago, 29-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) to (...) "wrong (...) That may be so, but I would think that most people who have a middling understanding of evolution would agree that intelligence has little (if any) effect on it. (...) right (...) No. Read the question again. I was (...) (25 years ago, 29-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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