A metric I think would be interesting that you could feasibly come up with, based on extrapolating the number embryos per IVF round & the total cost per number of day 5 embryos, is the “cost per probable IQ point added”.
As someone in a reasonably financially comfortable position who is nearing the stage of life where one typically becomes a parent, it would be a no-brainer to add, say, ~10 IQ points for $100,000 or similar.
There’s obviously a plethora of positive life outcomes associated with that, but (perhaps more selfishly) even a slightly higher IQ is associated with fewer externalizing problems in children, like tantrums, conduct disorder, delinquency, etc.
A metric I think would be interesting that you could feasibly come up with, based on extrapolating the number embryos per IVF round & the total cost per number of day 5 embryos, is the “cost per probable IQ point added”.
As someone in a reasonably financially comfortable position who is nearing the stage of life where one typically becomes a parent, it would be a no-brainer to add, say, ~10 IQ points for $100,000 or similar.
There’s obviously a plethora of positive life outcomes associated with that, but (perhaps more selfishly) even a slightly higher IQ is associated with fewer externalizing problems in children, like tantrums, conduct disorder, delinquency, etc.
I’d be interested in hearing your thoughts.
I made you a graph: https://imgur.com/a/v5EXnkf
You could probably do it for even less overseas