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NARRATED: Is Idiocracy Really The Future?

The Flynn effect versus dysgenics...who wins? YOU DECIDE!

Jan 11, 2023
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According to the comedic movie Idiocracy, each generation is stupider than the one before it, because intelligence is largely genetic (this is true), and stupider people tend to have more children (this is also true). This type of natural selection is called “dysgenic” (the opposite of eugenic). The genetic variants for intelligence…

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