I wonder if you could analyze internet discussions for an effect.

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    17 days ago

    Causes :
    long covid ?
    micro plastics ?
    screen time ?
    sedentarism ?
    fast food ?
    lack of sleep ?
    other ?

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      17 days ago

      idiocracy intro?

      (IE the theory it pushed was in short, smart people do family planning, try to wait for everything to be perfect… and forget to get around to having kids).

      Meanwhile on the less intelligent spectrum. Shit I’m pregnant again!!!.. Oh and I got the girl in the trailer next door pregnant.

      Or for a real world example… look at Lauren Boebert, the 35 year old grandmother in congress.

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        17 days ago

        Yes absolutely (and i was afraid to say it out loud).
        But now, we have also to explain why it did not so much apply in the past millennias … or tens of past millenias. (again, i am afraid to say it … don’t want a shitstorm)

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          The massive lowering of the bar of “good enough to stay alive”. Life expectancy was consistantly in the 30s up until the 1870s. Simply having kids was life threatening… doing so while malnourished even more so.

          Natural selection favors traits that increase the odds of having offspring, as well as those that avoid death before having offspring. Avoiding death is a lot easier than it used to be.