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Re:Teenagers are better behaved and less hedonistic (2018) by samatman on Sunday April 26, 2020 @04:19PM (#22989872)
That's anecdotally interesting, but the numbers don't bear it out: there's a consistent negative correlation between degree of educational attainment and number of offspring.
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Re:Teenagers are better behaved and less hedonistic (2018) by nostrademons on Sunday April 26, 2020 @07:02PM (#22991111)
That negative correlation exists only between social groups, not within social groups:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3449224/

If you look at only populations who were likely to go to college in the first place - say, white (formerly) middle-class two-parent households, which is what the bulk of my high-school friends were, there's a positive correlation between educational attainment and fertility. Simpson's Paradox strikes again...

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