CaveJohnson comments on Undiscriminating Skepticism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: brazil84 08 January 2012 12:00:42AM 0 points [-]

Besides the more abstract measure of "genomic literacy" blogged on by editors of the New York Beta Times last week, a recent disturbing study by the FDA shows that only 15% of African American mothers and 21% of Hispanic American mothers conceive via artificial insemination compared to 40% of white American mothers and 47% of Asian American mothers.

Doesn't sound all that plausible to me. Based on my general observations, the people at the low end of the IQ bell curve tend to reproduce in their late teens and early 20s, i.e. at ages where reproductive technology is not all that necessary.

Comment author: CaveJohnson 08 January 2012 10:42:42AM 0 points [-]

In this world people use reproductive technology even when perfectly capable of conceiving naturally because it has become much more advanced, more convenient and because children gain a considerable measurable advantage. Also I assume these would be plausible numbers because contraceptive technology has advanced, the male pill for starters or perhaps a safer, more advanced, multi-year version of something like Depo-Provera.

Basically Gattaca to reach for a fictional portrayal.