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I don’t have a lot of kids yet but after reading this thread it looks like I’m going to have to in order to outweigh these truly stupid people procreating. If you’re making decisions about your family based on environmental “impacts” (WTF) do us a favor and just have no kids! [/quote]

I think a lot of people are making decisions about having kids based on the future that these kids will have.  Only idiots don't think ahead.
There is a correlation with number kids and education. You know, idiocracy.[/quote]

Plan ahead for what the freaking ice age? You need to go back on your meds. [/quote]

I have a PhD and 3 kids… most women I know in DC with 3 kids are highly educated (as most women in NW DC are)[/quote]

Then you probably know what anecdotal evidence is.  Studies show that fertility correlates negatively with education.
Also, studies show that schooling is negatively correlates with family size, meaning the bigger the family size, the less educated the kids.[/quote]

As a matter of fact I do know… but I am not sure you do. Anecdotal evidence is based on personal experience and is notoriously unreliable. You probably mean “correlation” and depending on your sample size, you might be right. I am also pretty sure that if you control for income level, family size and education are NOT correlated and if they are, they might skew the other way (I.e. richer people are more educated and have more kids)… I don’t actually know this, but it makes logical sense. 
My kids are in one of the famous private schools in DC where most kids come from very rich and educated families. I would say that onlies are less likely than sets of 3 (based on my ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE). Some of the richest families in the schools have 2 or 3 kids… I can’t think of any with only 1 (of the richest most educated ones)… but again… based on my experience and therefore might be totally wrong.[/quote]

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