No offense to those with large families (and no compliment to those with small ones), this is a thread speaking of averages and groups, not specific people and families. Your mileage may vary. Dealer participation will affect consumer cost. Not all cars for use in all sets.
Do you get the impression that stupid people breed more often than intelligent people? I do. It seems that the more children you see in a family, the more likely you are to find some cow-eyed woman and idiotic-looking man running the show. Little education, low-income. This is only the impression I've gotten, I don't have any facts to back it up. (Which is why I bring it up for discussion)
What is your impression? What have you seen? And do you know of any studies supporting or destroying this idea?
Let's assume for a minute that it's true. What are the implications of this? Let's say that two intelligent, well-educated people have two children and two idiots have six. The six will grow up raised by the idiots, they will have their mentality, views of the world, and views on having children. They will likely grow up, marry six idiots, and produce another 36 idiots. Meanwhile, our intelligent folks are going to raise two smart kids that grow up, marry two intelligent people and produce another 4 intelligent people. How long would it be before the idiots are an uncontrollable throng of doltishness that can no longer be supported by the economy?
This is assuming idiot parents have idiot children which is clearly not always true. It is also assuming intelligent parents raise intelligent children; also false. Moreover, it classes everyone into "idiot" or "intelligent" groups, when there are all manner of grays in there. But even if you gray it all around and account for individual choice, if the idiots procreate more than the non-idiots, you'll get more idiots overall. Right?
That sounds bad to me. Is it? Or am I just WAY off in left field somewhere?
Dave