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I overheard two people discussing the need for intelligent people to reproduce more because, and I quote "we (assuming that she herself in included in the category for intelligent people) need to outbreed them". Are there any reports that you guys can refer me to on this topic? Something statistics related and as factual as I can get that attempts to prove that uneducated people are reproducing at a more rapid rate? Google wasn't very helpful for me.
I know smart parents that have kids dumb as a box of rocks and the reverse as well. I don't really know what to say to this.
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@wirestyle22 said in Non-IT News Thread:
I overheard two people discussing the need for intelligent people to reproduce more because, and I quote "we (assuming that she herself in included in the category for intelligent people) need to outbreed them". Are there any reports that you guys can refer me to on this topic? Something statistics related and as factual as I can get that attempts to prove that uneducated people are reproducing at a more rapid rate? Google wasn't very helpful for me.
Stupid people should not be allowed to reproduce (yeah, I said it), yet they do, in tragically epic numbers.
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@RojoLoco said in Non-IT News Thread:
@wirestyle22 said in Non-IT News Thread:
I overheard two people discussing the need for intelligent people to reproduce more because, and I quote "we (assuming that she herself in included in the category for intelligent people) need to outbreed them". Are there any reports that you guys can refer me to on this topic? Something statistics related and as factual as I can get that attempts to prove that uneducated people are reproducing at a more rapid rate? Google wasn't very helpful for me.
Stupid people should not be allowed to reproduce (yeah, I said it), yet they do, in tragically epic numbers.
Yet they give birth to brilliant people just like brilliant people give birth to idiots. Or do you mean they shouldn't be able to actually raise the child but still retain the right to get pregnant?
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@wirestyle22 said in Non-IT News Thread:
I overheard two people discussing the need for intelligent people to reproduce more because, and I quote "we (assuming that she herself in included in the category for intelligent people) need to outbreed them". Are there any reports that you guys can refer me to on this topic? Something statistics related and as factual as I can get that attempts to prove that uneducated people are reproducing at a more rapid rate? Google wasn't very helpful for me.
I know smart parents that have kids dumb as a box of rocks and the reverse as well. I don't really know what to say to this.
There is no measure of "smart people", thus no study like you are seeking. What there are solid studies on are that people with significant careers, those who are highly educated, Europeans from wealthier countries, the Japanese, Singaporeans and similar groups are all reproducing at a fraction of the rate of the rest of the world. Are they smarter? I'm not saying that. But those are the stats that people are using.
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@wirestyle22 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@RojoLoco said in Non-IT News Thread:
@wirestyle22 said in Non-IT News Thread:
I overheard two people discussing the need for intelligent people to reproduce more because, and I quote "we (assuming that she herself in included in the category for intelligent people) need to outbreed them". Are there any reports that you guys can refer me to on this topic? Something statistics related and as factual as I can get that attempts to prove that uneducated people are reproducing at a more rapid rate? Google wasn't very helpful for me.
Stupid people should not be allowed to reproduce (yeah, I said it), yet they do, in tragically epic numbers.
Yet they give birth to brilliant people just like brilliant people give birth to idiots. Or do you mean they shouldn't be able to actually raise the child but still retain the right to get pregnant?
I think there should be very stringent laws on who gets to make babies. Long gone are the days when everyone needed to pop out kids until their uterus fell out. Overpopulation means everybody need to chill out on the babymaking, especially the unintelligent. Animals can be bred to be smart/fast/pretty/whatever, why can't we do that with people?
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In Italy, for example, even though the population isn't getting smarter or dumber, it is becoming more educated and richer. As this happens, those that are more educated and richer than the rest have fewer kids. To the point that they, like Japan, are facing full on societal collapse that is only being held off through massive immigration to keep the population numbers up.
Much of this is caused by the average child bearing age of women shooting from in the late teens to nearly 30 in as many years as the shift is. The average number of kids per woman is plummeting as well. So fewer kids, later in life. The population is devastated by it. Instead of generating four kids every twenty four years, now it is one kid every thirty. That's a very, very different child landscape.
But it has nothing to do with the genes, just social and economic pressures.
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@RojoLoco Genetic diversity is needed for a species to advance though. That means everyone is valuable.
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@wirestyle22 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@RojoLoco Genetic diversity is needed for a species to advance though. That means everyone is valuable.
Well, no, it means that many people are valuable. Bad genes are still bad genes, though. You don't want to risk passing on stupidity any more than passing on huge congenital heart defects or other risks. Diversity value does not mean that all gene samples are valuable.
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Sadly for me, gene diversity is important. I come from the least diverse gene pool in the New World. So inbred that my family had the US DNA inbreeding and DNA deformation research facility built where we come from so that they would have easier access to my family.
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Not only are we the most inter-related family in America, we also are the population of the most inter-related city in America. Thankfully my wife is from a very different gene pool.
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@wirestyle22 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@RojoLoco Genetic diversity is needed for a species to advance though. That means everyone is valuable.
I'm certainly not suggesting this be decided along lines of location, ethnicity, nationality, or anything else like that. Genetic diversity can be achieved by taking the best and brightest from all countries and all races.
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@RojoLoco said in Non-IT News Thread:
@wirestyle22 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@RojoLoco Genetic diversity is needed for a species to advance though. That means everyone is valuable.
I'm certainly not suggesting this be decided along lines of location, ethnicity, nationality, or anything else like that. Genetic diversity can be achieved by taking the best and brightest from all countries and all races.
Given that DNA researches claim that racial diversity in the gene pool is so small that you can't even really find it (maybe they make that stuff up for political reasons, though) it would suggest that smart people might be more related to each other genetically than people of the same family or race to each other.
Now there is an interesting conundrum.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Not only are we the most inter-related family in America, we also are the population of the most inter-related city in America. Thankfully my wife is from a very different gene pool.
Before my wife passed away, I told everyone I had to marry a Texas girl because I'm related to everyone born in the county. One of those jokes that made everyone laugh till they actually thought about it.... yeah, I could tell how quickly they picked up on things by how long it took them to stop laughing the first time I used that line around them.
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@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Not only are we the most inter-related family in America, we also are the population of the most inter-related city in America. Thankfully my wife is from a very different gene pool.
Before my wife passed away, I told everyone I had to marry a Texas girl because I'm related to everyone born in the county. One of those jokes that made everyone laugh till they actually thought about it.... yeah, I could tell how quickly they picked up on things by how long it took them to stop laughing the first time I used that line around them.
Yeah.. given that we are likely related, we share the same problem there.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Not only are we the most inter-related family in America, we also are the population of the most inter-related city in America. Thankfully my wife is from a very different gene pool.
Before my wife passed away, I told everyone I had to marry a Texas girl because I'm related to everyone born in the county. One of those jokes that made everyone laugh till they actually thought about it.... yeah, I could tell how quickly they picked up on things by how long it took them to stop laughing the first time I used that line around them.
Yeah.. given that we are likely related, we share the same problem there.
@travisdh1 : sorry to hear.
@scottalanmiller : Thats... no, don't want to think about that
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@thwr said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller : Thats... no, don't want to think about that
Miller, Hershberger, Yoder, Beachy and a few others I'm forgetting at the moment, all inner-related, and constitutes the vast majority of the population around here.
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@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@thwr said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller : Thats... no, don't want to think about that
Miller, Hershberger, Yoder, Beachy and a few others I'm forgetting at the moment, all inner-related, and constitutes the vast majority of the population around here.
Yup. Obviously my name is Miller. I'm from the Beachy Amish. Yoder is the biggest name in the family, Miller is a lesser branch. Hershberger sounds familiar but I'm not sure how close I have one in the tree.
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I wish I had popcorn
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My father in law makes popcorn every night in his full commercial popcorn machine. He's very into popcorn. Almost everyone in the family has a full size popcorn machine except for us, the homeless branch. He has a commercial snow cone machine too. And my sister in law has a commercial cotton candy machine.
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