My dad said something rather outragious at the weekend and I thought to myself, hmmm, mumsnet would love that!

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He said that we were going to, in another generation or so, run into serious problems because...

The intelligent, articulate, well educated (good?) people are not replacing themselves and adding to their numbers (only having 1 or 2 children) while the (to cut a long story short) jeremy kyle society genes are proliferating, with their 6 or 7 kids each.

He fears for the future of mankind.

Older, i think Flynn effect is based on environmental circumstances. Regression to means is based on genetics.

So we are agreeing in a roundabout way

claw3, thank goodness for that!

actually i think there's a plan, brave new world styleee

that's why the education system is so bollocks.. it's to keep em down, not bring em up

actually i think there's a plan, brave new world styleee

that's why the education system is so bollocks.. it's to keep em down, not bring em up

also can I just say

outrageous

I knew I'd spelled that one wrong!

Off to read what you think of me mad awd dad now.

probono - my dad's a maths teacher! His opinion on it is by the time he gets 'em, it's already too late to do anything!

I think he's a bit jaded.

Hmmmmm.

Obviously a bit of a sensitive subject because I am working class and currently incubating DC5.

It does seem that it has been assumed that I have all these hoards of kids because I am not bright enough to stop myself or I have got nothing better to do.

I doubt Nicola Horlick faced the same assumptions.

It appears (in my hormonal and grumpy state) that the general opinion of the more affluent classes that a women with many children who is middle class = superwoman but one that is working class = indiscriminate breeder.

I wonder if Ms Horlick got asked at each mw/clinic/development appt if her children all had the same father?

Post not as angry bitter as it may come across, simply musing

Cos I dont really give a toss - innit.

lol

we're all doomed DOOMED

A math teacher, he must know all about the regression of means tut tut!

There is a classic SF story called The Marching Morons which may have been the inspiration for that film mentioned by rationalist.

It is survival of the fittest. If you don't have many children or other closely related people in the next generation that survive and reproduce, then you're less fit.

Middle class people are not the fittest, in evolutionary terms.

I don't consider that a problem.

I have never seen it stated before on a thread, that some of you actually think you are better just because you are middle class. To the extent of thinking people should be wiped out by a plague! I really hope you are all joking.