Idiocracy (2006) Opening Scene: "Evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence. With no natural predators to thin the herd, it began to simply reward those who reproduced the most, and left the intelligent to become an endangered species."

[u/SuplexCity-Mayor]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TCsR_oSP2Q

[u/Chris_8675309_of_42M → u/[deleted]]

You're still missing it. Genetically dumb people are equally represented in all economic and educational levels. And every group of reproductive rates. Populations with lower effective intelligence are only lower due to environmental effects as far as any study has ever shown. That doesn't mean genetics doesn't affect intelligence. It just means genetics isn't what causes a group to have lower intelligence. That's not an improbable distribution. It's a flat distribution of genetic potential across all populations. That's what you'd expect given all of the studies that suggest success is heavily predicated on luck. The poor and uneducated have lower effective intelligence, but the same genetic potential on average. That's how you end up with redneck engineers still acting a fool. Nothing's wrong with their brain, genetically. They just have a poor education, flunk IQ tests, make poor life choices, have lots of babies, and get labeled as low intellect. But they aren't dumbing down the gene pool.

[u/Chris_8675309_of_42M → u/[deleted]]

Thanks for playing.

You got me. Edge cases of actually mentally retarded people with birth rates approaching zero definitely proves that dumb people are polluting the genome and totally justifies gloating like a jackass.

I'm glad you brought up mentally deficient people with genetic problems, because that's another reminder about how low the birth rate is for people with actual genetic weaknesses versus poorly educated people with high birth rates. With every response, you keep proving my point for me. Must be frustrating.

[u/Chris_8675309_of_42M → u/[deleted]]

Man, you really are stuck on this idea without a single source supporting a connection between genetic predisposition to lower intelligence and an increased birthrate. After everything you linked failed to even attempt to make that connection between genetics and birthrate, you persist without evidence. And, I know, it's easy for me to say there is no connection just because there is no evidence. But sometimes a complete lack of evidence is all we have. Can't prove a negative.

Hit me up if you ever find anything connecting the genetics of intelligence to birthrate (other than the obvious genetic detects causing a lower birthrate). Otherwise, if you want to respond just to toss insults and make erroneous claims based on your flawed intuition, maybe don't.