wedrifid comments on Undiscriminating Skepticism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CaveJohnson 08 January 2012 10:46:38AM 4 points [-]

Why is this down-voted?

He is right. Reproductive technology is mostly currently employed by people with above average IQ, not just because this is the general pattern with all almost all technology and medical services in general, but because high IQ people are more likley to be infertile at the period in their life when they want to have children.

Comment author: wedrifid 08 January 2012 11:12:46AM *  0 points [-]

high IQ people are more likley to be infertile at the period in their life

And, incidentally, are more likely to be fertile overall. (And taller and with an ass that conforms to sex appropriate indicators of 'damn fine'.) Of course, not very much more likely.

Comment author: [deleted] 08 January 2012 03:19:48PM 2 points [-]

And, incidentally, are more likely to be fertile overall.

By fertile you mean “able to have children, whether they actually have them or not”? Otherwise, that's wrong.

Comment author: wedrifid 09 January 2012 01:10:55AM 0 points [-]

By fertile you mean “able to have children, whether they actually have them or not”?

Clearly.

Comment author: katydee 08 January 2012 05:03:11PM 0 points [-]

Um, citation needed?