Quality of a man’s sperm depends on how intelligent he is, and vice versa (2008)
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Re: Quality of a man’s sperm depends on how intelligent he is, and vice versa (2008)
#2If this would be true, we'd already live here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy
Re: Quality of a man’s sperm depends on how intelligent he is, and vice versa (2008)
#3The correlation is quite small, but interesting nevertheless. I tried looking for replication studies, but couldn't find any.
Here is the publication in question: http://www.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/reprints/2009semen.pdf
Here is an addendum trying to explain why it might be the case: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2775227/
Re: Quality of a man’s sperm depends on how intelligent he is, and vice versa (2008)
#4To get behind the paywall, simply Google the title.
I still don't get how Google doesn't nuke the websites that do this into oblivion...
Re: Quality of a man’s sperm depends on how intelligent he is, and vice versa (2008)
#5To get behind the paywall, simply Google the title. I still don't get how Google doesn't nuke the websites that do this into oblivion...
Google's users don't see the paywall, so why would Google care?
Re: Quality of a man’s sperm depends on how intelligent he is, and vice versa (2008)
#6If this would be true, we'd already live here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy
I should watch that movie, could be amusing. However I'm not sure I understand what you mean. I don't think the study reached a conclusion as to how many children someone might have, merely that the sperm quality was higher/lower.
Re: Quality of a man’s sperm depends on how intelligent he is, and vice versa (2008)
#7To get behind the paywall, simply Google the title. I still don't get how Google doesn't nuke the websites that do this into oblivion...
Not even that is necessary for The Economist - just copy the URL and open it in an incognito browser mode.
Re: Quality of a man’s sperm depends on how intelligent he is, and vice versa (2008)
#8If this would be true, we'd already live here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy
I should watch that movie, could be amusing. However I'm not sure I understand what you mean. I don't think the study reached a conclusion as to how many children someone might have, merely that the sperm quality was higher/lower.
The movie gives the view that dumber people get more kids compared to smart people. So the world will, after a point, contain more dumb people than smart people because they simply breed more.
Re: Quality of a man’s sperm depends on how intelligent he is, and vice versa (2008)
#9"Quality of a man’s sperm depends on how intelligent he is, and vice versa"
I don't think people know what "depends" means anymore. Especially the "vice versa" part.
That means if you improve the quality of your sperm, as a direct consequence you will become more intelligent, which brings forward all kinds of interesting questions, such as do men really think with their balls?
Re: Quality of a man’s sperm depends on how intelligent he is, and vice versa (2008)
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I should watch that movie, could be amusing. However I'm not sure I understand what you mean. I don't think the study reached a conclusion as to how many children someone might have, merely that the sperm quality was higher/lower.
The movie gives the view that dumber people get more kids compared to smart people. So the world will, after a point, contain more dumb people than smart people because they simply breed more.
Unless there are other compensating factors, like dumb people having higher mortality rates?