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== The movie asserts that "smarter" people will have less children compared to dumber people ==

* But civilization has been around for 7,000 years. Is the movie trying to tell me that the ancient Sumerians and Egyptians were so unbelievably intelligent that they make [[Watchmen|Ozymandias]] look like a Down's Syndrome patient, or is it saying that for some incomprehensible reason stupid people are ''now'' deciding to screw like bunnies? And speaking of which, the author misinterpreted a piece of [[Truth in Television]]: That people with less income and education tend to have more children than everyone else. But "uneducated" =/= "stupid". There's probably a slight correlation, but it's possible to be bright yet dirt-poor and uneducated, just like it's possible to have a PhD and the wits of a lightly sautéed tomato. See the [[Country Mouse]] and [[Absent-Minded Professor]] tropes.