I wonder if you could analyze internet discussions for an effect.

  • Snot Flickerman
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    24 hours ago

    Yeah as the smart child of two dumbfuck parents who can barely read please stop repeating this dumb shit.

    Two smart people don’t always make a smart baby. Two dumb people don’t always make a dumb baby.

    It is eugenics.

    • capital_sniff@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      13 hours ago

      It is simpler than all that. Elite parents send their children to elite schools and universities. Their children then learn how the world works and are equipped with the skills to engage with the people running things.

      The lower classes do not value education in this fashion. Their children do not have parents at home who understand how the world works or how our society is organized. Even if those children are smart or gifted they have no idea how to learn the skills they need or how to properly use their gifted abilities.

    • Probius@sopuli.xyz
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      21 hours ago

      If you automatically assumed that intelligence having a hereditary component to it meant that I was trying to say that all dumb people’s children were also dumb 100% of the time, you might not be as smart as you think.