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Brainy girls have marriage handicap
the Australian ^ | January 03, 2005 | "correspondents in London"

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."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Japan; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: iq; japan; marraige; unitedkingdom
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To: U S Army EOD
Ow! That hurt!

Never met the lady.

And I would never cross my EOD support. BRRRRRRR!

441 posted on 01/02/2005 10:14:33 PM PST by patton (The Louisiana crawfish is disrupting breeding areas for frogs and other amphibians)
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To: patton
So far, so good. JFT, though, Mr. Ex isn't a mathematician...he's a restaurant manager. Drives everyone crazy because he can figure faster and more accurately. It's also a great help to him getting things done the right way. :)
442 posted on 01/02/2005 10:15:34 PM PST by exnavychick (Just my two cents, as usual.)
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To: television is just wrong

Wait to you hear the same speech six months after you are married.


443 posted on 01/02/2005 10:15:40 PM PST by U S Army EOD (John Kerry, the mother of all flip floppers.I)
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To: exnavychick
I have managed restaurants, pumped gas, driven a plow, jumped out of airplanes, banged nailes, nailed bangs, raked yards, hauled furniture, run a business, lost a business, fired off rockets, gotten cought with rockets, made a million, lost a million, rolled a car, fallen out of a car, bailed out of airplanes, crashed an airplane, wrecked 5 tanks, cooked with explosives, burped my kids, wiped their butts, ....

I am a mathematician.

444 posted on 01/02/2005 10:21:37 PM PST by patton (The Louisiana crawfish is disrupting breeding areas for frogs and other amphibians)
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To: FormerACLUmember

I guess that explains why I have been married so many times! :-)


445 posted on 01/02/2005 10:26:35 PM PST by ladyinred (Congratulations President Bush! Four more years!)
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To: patton

Point taken. :)


446 posted on 01/02/2005 10:27:26 PM PST by exnavychick (Just my two cents, as usual.)
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To: patton

Intelligence is marrying up. Cheating is lack of morals. The two, while are not mutually exclusive, are not particularly strongly linked.


447 posted on 01/02/2005 10:38:59 PM PST by durasell (Friends are so alarming, My lover's never charming...)
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To: durasell
Women marrying the resource-rich man and having kids by someone else is not a new phenomenon - see Launcelot, eg., for an historic, albiet ficticious, example. Various scientific studies support the validity of this trait.

You have new data?

448 posted on 01/02/2005 10:45:43 PM PST by patton (The Louisiana crawfish is disrupting breeding areas for frogs and other amphibians)
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To: patton

Just anecdotal. But you need to look at the "resource rich man" and what he is and represents. Typically he is accomplished in his field and has varying amounts of "fame" and respect by a small or larger community. Usually smart, driven, and engaged in life on a large scale. These are genuinely attractive traits for many women.

So, when you see these pictures of the short little fat guys with the tall blondes in the gossip pages, assume there's more of a link there than you would suppose. Then, of course, there's the prenups, which are fairly carefully worded these days.


449 posted on 01/02/2005 10:57:49 PM PST by durasell (Friends are so alarming, My lover's never charming...)
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To: FormerACLUmember
This article is nonsense. It may well be that smarter women have a tougher time getting married, but it's most assurely NOT because they're smarter. It could easily be what they elect to do with their intelligence IMO. MM
450 posted on 01/02/2005 11:02:03 PM PST by MississippiMan (Americans should not be sacrificed on the altar of political correctness.)
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To: pepperdog
Shoes, the size that doesn't seem to change much regardless of how much the body girth increases. And that's what it is with the shoes!

Thank you. This is the first decent explanation of women's OCD regarding their vast, overpriced shoe collections.

451 posted on 01/02/2005 11:06:07 PM PST by FormerACLUmember (Free Republic is 21st Century Samizdat)
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To: Ciexyz

You're right also. I am not really trying to flame or get people upset. I've had a wife at both ends of the spectrum, and can see strengths in each.


452 posted on 01/02/2005 11:28:51 PM PST by Tax Government (Boycott and defeat the Legacy Media. Become a monthly contributor to FR.)
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To: VOA

Nicole-Smith: "I'm not really good with all those zeros "

HA !


453 posted on 01/03/2005 12:29:22 AM PST by traumer
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To: Truthsayer20
The USA is slightly better, but still very disturbed in the message we give young, intelligent women.

The message intelligent women should hear is: you are a breeding machine that society has attempted to defeat and sidetrack, with false promises of a life made more worthwhile by intellectual achievement.

What's happening to young people is population control operating on a very personal level. Most "educated" young people cannot afford the lifestyle they have been programmed to desire (apartment or house on the safe/stylish side of town, high-status college degrees, newish cars, ski vacations, blue locale (e.g., SF)) without a second income.

The real winners and survivors in this society are the people who embrace a life of sruggle and probable poverty without the likelihood of high-status frills, who marry poor and are happy about it, and generally don't compete very hard in the race to die with the most "toys".

454 posted on 01/03/2005 12:31:40 AM PST by Tax Government (Boycott and defeat the Legacy Media. Become a monthly contributor to FR.)
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To: Tax Government

I have never met anyone who was happy about being poor. I've spent time in "the ghetto" and have never heard anyone even remotely express that sentiment.

The real winners in society are those who, well, win. They compete and win. They succeed at their work, in their family life and intellectually. Naturally, it follows that the losers are those who lose. They either compete (or don't compete) and don't win.


455 posted on 01/03/2005 12:40:30 AM PST by durasell (Friends are so alarming, My lover's never charming...)
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To: FormerACLUmember

Well - *DUH*!!!

The real problem is that successful women STILL carry with them the 'security' gene - i.e., no matter HOW successful they are, they STILL WANT a man MORE SUCCESSFUL than they are....

...but those men are already married - to more traditional women....


....oh feminism is a nasty conundrum, isn't it?


456 posted on 01/03/2005 12:47:06 AM PST by Al Simmons (Man needs Woman like Soldier needs Mine)
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To: Al Simmons

If you want to know what a woman will look like in 20 years, look at her mother. But if you want to know how smart a guy is, talk to his wife.


457 posted on 01/03/2005 12:54:40 AM PST by durasell (Friends are so alarming, My lover's never charming...)
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To: Al Simmons
Feminism is a nasty conundrum, isn't it?

It has destroyed much of the female population, completely ruining their lives.

458 posted on 01/03/2005 12:54:41 AM PST by FormerACLUmember (Free Republic is 21st Century Samizdat)
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To: durasell

I'm making the case for the anti-status, be satisfied-with-less lifestyle. Young people are encouraged to desire things beyond their financial reach; to pull it off, they commit to two-wage-earner lifestyles that make it hard to raise a family.

I have done it the "poor" way -- foregoing expensive addresses, nice cars, fancy stereos and all kinds of "stuff" -- just to be able to raise a family. In my young adult children, I see the pressures they face to conform to the consumptive lifestyle.

And yes, I may have lived in the "ghetto" as long as you. By choice.


459 posted on 01/03/2005 12:55:59 AM PST by Tax Government (Boycott and defeat the Legacy Media. Become a monthly contributor to FR.)
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To: durasell

"If you want to know what a woman will look like in 20 years, look at her mother. But if you want to know how smart a guy is, talk to his wife."

So you're telling me that, my Ivy-League education and Phi Beta Kappa Key aside, I am a hopeless loser?

That's why the word (former) will be apended soon. And may the Good Lord have mercy on the next victim ;0)


460 posted on 01/03/2005 12:58:29 AM PST by Al Simmons (Man needs Woman like Soldier needs Mine)
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