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dysgenic

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pertaining to or causing degeneration in the offspring produced

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The main objects of the Population Congress would be [...] (f) to give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization. Margaret Sanger

They estimate that there has been a dysgenic decline in the world's genotypic IQ (masked by the Flynn effect for the phenotype ) of 0.86 IQ points per decade for the years 1950–2000. Source: Internet

Shockley argued that a higher rate of reproduction among the less intelligent was having a dysgenic effect, and that a drop in average intelligence would ultimately lead to a decline in civilization. Source: Internet

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