tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post1497900629338955840..comments2024-03-24T21:25:13.059-07:00Comments on Inductivist: Data: Compared to highly intelligent American women, mentally disabled women have twice the number of kids Ron Guhnamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421460508647618774noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post-15720319753887850852019-01-27T09:06:54.789-08:002019-01-27T09:06:54.789-08:00I'd like to see her whole genotype, and that o...I'd like to see her whole genotype, and that of the man/men she chose to sire her brood.Jim Boweryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12686155123469135528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post-52926067690434355232019-01-26T15:04:18.034-08:002019-01-26T15:04:18.034-08:00Hmmm..I wonder what the pattern is for men?Hmmm..I wonder what the pattern is for men?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07250913698807269166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post-67332221902284585702019-01-25T19:33:27.276-08:002019-01-25T19:33:27.276-08:00My neighbor is devout Mormon. She has an MS in Bio...My neighbor is devout Mormon. She has an MS in Biology and has eight kids!Ron Guhnamehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06421460508647618774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post-86043674557409231882019-01-25T09:12:29.039-08:002019-01-25T09:12:29.039-08:00Most of the cohort studies I have seen suggest tha...Most of the cohort studies I have seen suggest that the most intelligent ('gifted') women in the US average only about 0.5 children - and this goes back to Terman's California study of a century ago; before the contraceptive pill etc. <br /><br />The only antidote to the dysgenic pattern is some religions - eg traditionalist Christians who do not use contraception (Amish, Hutterites), Orthodox/ Ultra-Orthodox Jews, Devout Muslims -- and Mormons, who do use contraception but (at least until about 15 years ago, I haven't seen more recent data) have modestly above-replacement average fertility and also show increasing fertility with education and wealth <br /><br />http://mormonfertility.blogspot.com<br /><br />My interpretation is that religion is 'biologically' necessary for human beings - and when it is absent or downgraded to triviality, then they become psychopathologically deranged, mentally ill and suppress their own reproduction - like wild animals placed in alien forms of captivity. <br /><br />Only those that lack the intelligence or self-discipline to use contraception will then have above above-replacement fertility; but as you show that intelligence threshold for replacment fertility is very low: far too low to sustain modern society. <br /><br />And then - on top - there is mutation accumulation...<br /><br />https://mouseutopia.blogspot.com<br />Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.com