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Given that intelligence is ~60% genetic, if well-educated people are having kids less, then are we going to start getting dumber?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy


Yes, definitely. Or at least there will be negative evolutionary pressure on intelligence; it might still go up from other pressures.


Education doesn't imply intelligence. 90% of humanity that has ever lived has probably never read a word.


Literacy is not education either ?.




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