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Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Designer babies ya'll

According to a new study by psychologists at the University of East Anglia, the well-educated are significantly more open to the idea of "designing" babies than poorly-educated people, particularly with improving their future-child's IQ.

Here are some other things that were found by the study:
  • Because of "parental uncertainty" - the idea that women know if a child is their's whereas men don't - men show a significantly greater preference than female parents for their children to inherit their own characteristics.

  • Parents aren't as concerned about female's IQ as males.

  • Older women and childless women are much more willing to improve the physical, social and intellectual characteristics of children.

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