• krashmo@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    You’re not wrong. Stupid people are outbreeding smart people by orders of magnitude. Nobody wants to talk about it though because there is no socially acceptable “nice” way to deal with it. Bolstering education is about the best we can hope for but clearly that isn’t going well.

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      8 days ago

      Intelligence is not a transferable trait, unlike physical traits. There’s no guarantee that these kids won’t educate themselves and surpass their parents in intellectual capabilities. All we need is indeed better public education.

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          6 days ago

          Huh. TIL I guess. That study cites a bunch of credible sources at least, but I haven’t had a chance to dig into the findings in detail yet.

          That said, even per the cited paper, the difference between your kids growing up dumb or smart is primarily environmental. So, that supports my original point: Given proper education there’s a good chance these kids will grow up to surpass their parents.

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        8 days ago

        There’s no guarantee of anything in life. You can say that, statistically speaking, intelligent parents raise intelligent children though. The inverse is often true as well.

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      8 days ago

      there’s something to that, but we shouldn’t go to Idiocracy, funny movie, but still eugenic rethoric.

      globally intelligence is rising, is based on education and child quality of life, that’s why America is doing all it can to gut education and promote child misery.