Posted on 01/02/2005 2:29:21 PM PST by FormerACLUmember
A HIGH IQ is a hindrance for women wanting to get married, while it is an asset for men, according to a study by four British universities.
The study found the likelihood of marriage increased by 35 per cent for males for each 16-point increase in IQ.
But for females, there was a 40 per cent drop for each 16-point rise.
The findings, by the universities of Aberdeen, Bristol, Edinburgh and Glasgow, were published in Britain's Sunday Times newspaper.
The study was based on the IQs of 900 males and females between their 10th and 40th birthdays.
Paul Brown, a psychologist and professor at Nottingham University, told the Sunday Times: "Women in their late 30s who have gone for careers after the first flush of university and who are among the brightest of their generation are finding that men are just not interesting enough."
Writer and broadcaster Claire Rayner said intelligent men often prefered a less brainy partner.
"A chap with a high IQ is going to get a demanding job that is going to take up a lot of his energy and time.
"In many ways he wants a woman who is an old-fashioned wife and looks after the home, a copy of his mum in a way."
Spinsteroood is quite fashionable but to be married one must drop many of the traits they find most desirable.
A generation of spinsters will prove to be a handicap but is natures way of limiting human intelligence.
A strong Christian upbringing (the real deal) trumps the evil influence of the MSM. I would bet the farm that devout religious folk are more fertile.
Wife: "He made me beautiful so you would love me, he made me stupid so I would love you."
Yeah, I guess. Since we're all friends here at FR, it's okay.
A decent looking woman with a nice personality and a good brain is way sexier than one of these silly pop-tarts whose shirts don't fit, IMHO
Stop by a Mensa meeting sometime. The women get mobbed.
And when they are 50 they will bore you to howling with tales of their cats. Unless they do the desperate-Hail-Mary-first-kid-at-45 thing, and then are puzzled when the poor baby has two heads and flippers.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
Why do you think intelligent women aren't interested in you? I hope you don't have the chick's disease (poor self image).
I have never seen a more hate-filled anti-woman website than NoMarraige.com. If I didn't know better, I'd swear it was written by a misogynous gay dude.
You didn't show enough of her Density of States.
Intelligent women who don't marry are often off-putting with their egos and self-centeredness. Plus the womens lib movement has instilled a lot of younger women with poisonous attitudes.
What chapter are you in? One meeting was enough for me. Something about a group of people with higher than average IQs that breeds quirky, antisocial behavior.
Abortion also strikes heavily among affluent intelligent women
who do not wish to interrupt their carêrs or abstain from trivial fun-sex stuff.
Some woman really did him dirty. I don't know of any other reason.
I've always been a believer that you have to believe in yourself and that you have whatever it is you're looking for in order to get it.
"A decent looking woman with a nice personality and a good brain is way sexier than one of these silly pop-tarts whose shirts don't fit, IMHO"
You rang?!?
; )
hehehe
I can't speak for all fields, but I deal with plenty of the "over-educated" every day as I'm in a PhD program in the humanities on the East Coast. One observation is that people in this demographic tend to be really neurotic and have alot of "issues." They also tend to ascribe to liberal morality which is not favorable towards marriage. Combine these two and you have alot of smart women and smart men who will probably never have a successful relationship in their life, much less a marriage. If these are the "brainy" women the article was talking about, then it's no wonder few will marry. Most don't want to marry, don't want kids, and even if they did are too neurotic and self-obsessed to make a good partner. Really I see this as no tragedy, since they will not breed and make more neurotic liberals.
Oh, but Mr. Shaw, I think it is far more likely to last a lifetime if the relationship stays for a while in the friendship category first, then to deepen into the true, enduring and loving phase necessary for two people to remain happily together forever after. (A little frenzied passion now and then doesn't hurt).
Would you agree, FAM?
" ...whose shirts don't fit..."
There's all kinds of attributes available in women today. Intelligent women who also wear shirts that don't fit. It just depends upon what you're looking for or at.
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