You
might want to look into the arguments and counter-arguments made in Singapore
about eight years ago, when their annual national initiative touched on
this. The government did a big campaign to persuade people with higher
education to have more children. (Each year, they pick some theme to
promote; when I was there, it was about not being rude when trying to be first
for everything, which had effects such as people unable to exit subway cars in
the rush to get on board first...)
You
might also want to look into a phenomenon observed by Dr. Daniel Amen, who
suggests that the number of people diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder is
rising in part because people with ADD tend to have more children, sooner, than
people without. Of course, this begs the question of whether or not ADD is
correlated with a lack of success, as the above argument begs the question of
whether or not higher education is correlated with success. Hey, what *is*
success, anyway??? ;-)
Nick
-----Original Message-----At 12:12 AM 11/25/01 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John D. Giorgis
Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2001 9:24 PM
To: Brin-L
Subject: Re: Quick Irregulars Question
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Not sure if you're referring to Ramanujan. First name: Srinivas. Possibly not -- he was born over a century ago, not 70 years. But he was Indian, a brilliant mathematician and was born in poverty.<<<<
Do I get the Green Science wedge if I'm right?
hehe
Jon
No wedge for you, but yes, that's the one.....
I am arguing against someone who has fallen into a serious intellectual trap - believing that the practice of contraception among the highly successful in our civilization is encouraging the promotion of the genes of the less-than-successful in our civilization.
JDG
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