/sci/ - Science & Math

think population
i have 0 people
on day 1 i have 0^1, 0 people
on day 2 i have 0^2, 0 people
and so on
about day zero?
0^0, somehow i have 1 person?

0^0 obviously equals 0

Is humanity getting stupider? If yes, why?

I do suspect that humanity is getitng stupider for the following reason. Most people that are intelligent manage to get a career, focus on some sort of passion and often rise up in their society resulting in them having fewer kids than unintelligent people in the lower classes of society.
This is something we observe all over the world, with wealth and career (I know these are not great indicators for intelligence, but they're not bad either) the birth rates drop, except in the lower classes.

So what do we have? We have these intelligent couples that refuse to have too many kids on one hand and uneducated stupid idiots who spawn one baby idiot after the other.

Further down are Germany-centric examples but one needn't read them to get the gist of the post.
The average German middle class woman has less than 2 kids, dropping almost below 1 if both parents are academics. The lower class has close to 3, over 3 for lower class immigrants.
Even if not unintelligent by nature these kids are less likely to succeed in academia and the economy (as shown by studies).

Germany constantly claims it needs more professionals and skilled employees but also has a high unemployment rate. Some people are surpised by that, which in turn surprises me. They ask why Germany doesn't fill those empty jobs with the unemployed people. Those who are unemployed are often unskilled, untrained, uneducated people that are unfit to fill those more demanding jobs.