ickplantFeb 25

Family values

https://lemmy.world/post/43567925

Show threadDead_or_Alive

Bag on it all you want but that man has 6 kids which is probably 6 more than most adults on this site. As long as he isn’t a complete scumbag he will likely he will pass most of his views and questionable morals to his kids.

Normally you have a chance to deprogram these kids through higher education but Republicans have recognized this and are trying their hardest to sabotage higher Ed.

Feb 25 at 6:01pmWeb
Show threadAgrivarFeb 25

Bag on it all you want. [snip]

Fixed that for ya.

Show threadkrashmoFeb 25
You’re not wrong. Stupid people are outbreeding smart people by orders of magnitude. Nobody wants to talk about it though because there is no socially acceptable “nice” way to deal with it. Bolstering education is about the best we can hope for but clearly that isn’t going well.
Show threadZC3rr0rFeb 25
Intelligence is not a transferable trait, unlike physical traits. There’s no guarantee that these kids won’t educate themselves and surpass their parents in intellectual capabilities. All we need is indeed better public education.
Show threadkrashmoFeb 25
There’s no guarantee of anything in life. You can say that, statistically speaking, intelligent parents raise intelligent children though. The inverse is often true as well.
Show threadkossaFeb 26

Correlation, causation, and such. Anectotal: know a well educated (i.e. intelligent) family, one child dumb as fuck.

What the “intelligent parents” bring to tme table: often money, but generally resources to educate the children. Send them to better schools, fund a college education, be capable of helping them with homework, enabling their outer curriculum activities.

That’s all stuff that society could provide for parents who can’t, but society doesn’t. Thus, statistically as you wrote,

  • intelligent parents = intelligent children
  • dumb parents = dumb children

with the occasional outliers.

Show threadduncan_bayneFeb 27

Ohhhhh yes it is.

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5754247/

Fortunately you can mitigate heritability to a certain extent. Unless your dominant culture is anti-intellectual, in which case you’re fucked.

The Paradox of Intelligence: Heritability and Malleability Coexist in Hidden Gene-Environment Interplay

The heritability of intelligence is extremely high, but it can also be malleable, a paradox that has been the source of continuous controversy. Here we attempt to clarify the issue, and offer a solution to this paradox that has been frequently ...

PubMed Central (PMC)
Show threadZC3rr0rFeb 27

Huh. TIL I guess. That study cites a bunch of credible sources at least, but I haven’t had a chance to dig into the findings in detail yet.

That said, even per the cited paper, the difference between your kids growing up dumb or smart is primarily environmental. So, that supports my original point: Given proper education there’s a good chance these kids will grow up to surpass their parents.

Show threadduncan_bayneFeb 27
That’s my hope for my kids too 🤪
Show thread🍉 Albert 🍉Feb 25

there’s something to that, but we shouldn’t go to Idiocracy, funny movie, but still eugenic rethoric.

globally intelligence is rising, is based on education and child quality of life, that’s why America is doing all it can to gut education and promote child misery.