They say smarter people has less children.
This puzzles me because i dont see them as having less children because they are smarter.
They are smarter because they have less children and thus have more time for themselves to develop instead of having to care for a child.
Lets take the good old "Identical twin" example.
We have 2 identical twins that both scored 120 on an IQ test.
Brother A) Gets a child at the age of 16, and another at the age of 23.
Brother B) Has no children.
Time passess and: Id put my bet that brother B is just as smart or smarter while brother A is falling behind. Because brother A has children and NOT because he in any way "dumber" than his brother. Having children as in: More responsibility and less time for himself.
Do you guys have any other opinions on reasons why pure statistics on this matter would be flawed? Personally i find the whole "Smarter people have less children" as a useless statistic.
Useless because smart people tend to have smarter children. So having less children wouldnt matter much when it comes to "value" because they have a higher quality so to speak.