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Long ago I had watched a movie Idiocracy. The reason I remembered the movie is because of its premise.

Over the course of years, generations become dumber and dumber. The base idea being the most intelligent humans to choose not to have children while the less intelligent reproduce indiscriminately. Hmmm... wonder if I can simulate that.

The Rules (based on my assumptions)

  • IQ of the child is based on the parents. I know this is far fetched as in reality environment plays a strong role. But for this simulation, it's gonna be the average of both parents, with a slight chance of IQ being a little bit higher than the intelligent of the two parents and conversely same chance of being little bit stupider than the stupidest of the two.
  • Partner selection will be based on age and IQ. Again, in the real world we have people with spouses old enough to their granddaughter. Also, people marry just for money or looks. But not in this simulation.
  • Giving birth to an offspring also depends on factors like current job of the parents, etc. Basically more intelligent parents will give weightage to their job more than family. This is the golden rule that leads to the basic idea of Idiocracy.
  • Education and Job do somewhat depend on the IQ. For example, to enroll for graduation, you need a certain level of IQ. Similarly for specialization you need an even higher IQ. The job you get depends on the education level that you have, so indirectly depend on IQ. This has been detailed out further in The Flow section.
  • To control the population from growing indefinitely (don't want the computer to crawl due to sheer calculation), a max cap is set for each state after which a nice 1 child policy kicks in. Also, people die. From a certain age onwards there is a chance of you being fatally ill (this increases with age and at 100 you die). There is also a recovery percentage based on how many researchers and specialized personnel are there in the population.

What's a State?

A state is like a region where the population resides. For this simulation, interstate travel is not possible. So a person born in 1 state lives in that same state for the rest of his/her life along with his/her generations.

State

The pink and the blue dot pointed out by the red circle represents a single female and a single male in this state. The dots pointed out by the green circle shows a couple. The dots in blue circle shows a family with 2 kids, a boy and a girl.

On the selection of states, the first choice, State of All, has a population cap of 5000 with their IQ range from 55 to 145. This aptly simulates the movie. The average IQ keeps dipping over time.

The second choice is where I separated them out in three groups, the State Names say it all. For each state the population is capped at 2500. While the IQ range of them are [45-75], [80-110] and [120-150] respectively.

The IQ to Education to Job relationship.

The Flow

In Electronic Life I had used Chart.js to render the data visualization. Here I wrote custom code to render them.

Statistics

This gives us the total population and also the Age wise distribution of the population.

The Total

Here out of 387 people in the said region, 189 are males and rest are females.

Age Wise

This is a Multi Bar Graph showing the distribution of population across different age groups. For each age group, we have a male, a female and an all bar (which is nothing but a sum of males and females in that age group). The numbers below account for the number of persons (390 being total population) and each square being a tenth of it. This gives us that the total number of kids is around 80.
Here we detail out the IQ distribution.

All in IQ

What this tells us is that the stupidest person in this population has an IQ of 76 while the most intelligent one has an IQ of 113. The average IQ is 92.

IQ Wise

A Bar Graph showing the IQ distribution in the population. According to this data, around 890 fall in the average intelligence range with IQ between 85 and 115. There are no above average or geniuses in this population.
Now for the Education distribution.

Education percentage

This bar shows that out of a population of 378, 257 are educated. The rest are yet to complete their education.

Round and round

The Pie Chart shows the distribution of population on different levels of education. Due to the high requirements for Post Specialization, only few select can opt for it. The outer circle shows the distribution of male and female for the education level in the inner circle. Again, blue for male and pink for female.
Lastly, for Job distribution.

Job percentage

This bar shows that out of a population of 166, 66 are in jobs. The rest are yet to complete their education or already retired.

Round and round

The Pie Chart shows the distribution of population in different job types. Here as we can see, Research field is the least employed, again due to the high requirements to join the same. The outer circle shows the distribution of male and female for the job in the inner circle. Again, blue for male and pink for female.

Idea from Idiocracy movie.