Interesting study. Puts the whole “Idiocracy” scenario in doubt, doesn’t it? I’m still betting on Fox to roll out “Ow, my balls!” in the next season or two, though.
Smart people may have fewer kids, but those children are less likely to use meth, go to prison, drive drunk, join the infantry, work in a coal mine, get lung cancer from smoking, etc., etc. I bet it all works out in the end.
Ah, but most people who die from lung cancer do so after they’ve already had their kids. People in prison no longer have kids, but how many did they have before going?
In other words, it only matters if the destructive behavior kills them before they procreate.
Interesting study. Puts the whole “Idiocracy” scenario in doubt, doesn’t it? I’m still betting on Fox to roll out “Ow, my balls!” in the next season or two, though.
Better sperm, but I bet they still have fewer kids (at least, in the West).
“You mean, use WATER to grow crops?”
Smart people may have fewer kids, but those children are less likely to use meth, go to prison, drive drunk, join the infantry, work in a coal mine, get lung cancer from smoking, etc., etc. I bet it all works out in the end.
Ah, but most people who die from lung cancer do so after they’ve already had their kids. People in prison no longer have kids, but how many did they have before going?
In other words, it only matters if the destructive behavior kills them before they procreate.
I don’t know the actual numbers, of course.