[ale] China chooses FreeBSD as basis for secure OS

[Jim Kinney]

my bias in my statement was geared ONLY for "in the US".

In more agricultural environments, higher child count is the norm. This is
related to the higher child mortality rates.

In the US, the more a parent team knows, the less likely they are to have an
abundance of children. They know what is involved and are wisely reluctant
to shoulder that burden.

Whereas the lower end of the education scale has people who have trailer
parks full of kids because they don't know any better.

It's really more of a cultural thing than an IQ thing. People tend to clump
into similar social groups. It's a rare thing to see intelligentsia arise
from a trailer park (but it _does_ happen - I've seen it). But the combined
drive for high intellectual achievement coupled with the drive for high
birth rate is far less common.

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Joe Knapka <jknapka at kneuro.net> wrote:

> Perhaps, but correlation is not causation.  My SO lived in a
> third-world country for a decade, where the level of education was
> generally low and families tended to be be larger than we're used to
> here.  But she says she didn't know a single family that hadn't lost
> at least one child. In this case it seems obvious (which doesn't ==
> "is true") that larger families are simply a response to higher
> mortality, rather than anything to do with parental education. (Of
> course the overall level of education in that society probably has
> something to do with higher child mortality, but that's a distinct
> issue.)
>
> -- JK
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Not quite. Intelligence is selected for but stupid breeds faster and more
> > often.
> >
> > Higher educated families have a strong tendency towards fewer children.
> > Larger families are associated with lower education.
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Charles Shapiro <
> hooterpincher at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Therefor, intelligence is selected against.  Hmm.
> >>
> >> -- CHS
> >>
> >> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Brian Stanaland <brian at stanaland.org>
> >> wrote:
> >> > For the eventual outcome of that just watch Idiocracy.
> >> >
> >> > --Brian
> >> >
> >> > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Lightner, Jeff <jlightner at water.com>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >> Birth is the problem.   Far more stupid people procreate than
> >> >> intelligent ones.
> >> >>
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