* If intelligence doesn’t have some genetic component, then why do infertile couples pay money to acquire sperm from Ivy League men for artificial insemination? Why don’t women with infertile husbands just have sex with any willing local bum at no charge?
Also, why are sperm banks paying Ivy League men for donations? Why don’t they just go to Skid Row or group homes for the mentally challenged and get the sperm there?
The same goes for donating eggs — for which college women get big bucks. Here is an article from Slate titled “Couples want donors to be smart, athletic, and good-looking.” Notice the first word in that headline.
And yet I’ll bet if you asked any of these couples (or any Slate reader) about IQ and genetics when they were among friends at a party, they’d deny any connection.
