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To: TobagoJack who wrote (95526)	10/15/2012 4:55:39 AM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 218588

Eugenics is an interesting business. The government eugenics programmes are continuing apace, but they don't call them that now, because "eugenics" is a very unfashionable word, nor do they acknowledge that's what they are doing, nor the results of their eugenics programmes. Like currency manipulation, both China and USA are doing it. But the results are distinctly different. Eugenics Made in China is mostly from the officially enforced one-child policy, which resulted in a huge surfeit of young men who therefore must compete for feminine favours and breeding rights. Women, being very keen proponents of eugenics, are not in the slightest reserved about making such choices as to which men have genes suitable for replication and which do not. Since women select for intelligence, kindness, humour and such intangibles, it's not surprising that The Flynn Effect has been a fact for a century, nor that in China there is a very rapid step up in intelligence now underway [no doubt that data is being measured somewhere and has probably been recorded by Google somewhere]. With a quick boe analysis, I guess the intelligence increase resulting from the one-child policy and male imbalance is about 7 IQ points. Add that to the normal selection bias in reproductive competition [ignoring Darwin Award effects and other winnowing processes]. China must be enjoying a phenomenal Flynn Effect of about 10 IQ point improvement in a single generation. Eugenics Made in USA is a different thing altogether. There, unintelligent young women find their best paid job is pregnancy and having babies. If something is rewarded, it should not be surprising that a lot more of it is done. In China, the rewards are not so great for a single woman having babies. The young woman's prospects are better if she gets a job installing Qualcomm chips into Apple deVices. So they do. According to that article, the numbers are impressive with the government-run eugenics programme. Mqurice