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."
. . . and then can't figure out why their kids are all dumb as rocks.
I've seen it happen time and time again. It's like these guys don't understand the basic principles of selective breeding.
good point
No, it's a matter of intelligent kids being more expensive to raise. As soon as kids go from "asset" to "liability" the birthrates drop. Welfare queens have lots of kids because the kids are still assets... more government money.
I guarantee that if you repeal child labor laws, you'll see the birthrate rise quite a bit.
I suppose that's true, generally. I have some first-hand views of women who don't seem to have that sort of intelligence, unfortunately. Their children are paying the price.
That's the problem. Women have gotten the sour feminist message for more than 40 years now. Being intelligent means being aggressive, unattractive or attractive in a very hard-edged way, pro-abortion and anti-child. On the other hand, men have also gotten that message and now feel free to be anti-family, pro-sleep over dates, and irresponsible (because, after all, she's going to take care of it all, right?).
The problem isn't IQ - it's the lousy messages both men and women have been getting for many a long year now, and which have become incorporated into our society so that kids get them as they are growing up. Especially if they go to public school...
Maybe they're just smart enough to avoid it.
I really don't know what the solution is. I can't blame intelligent women for wanting to be achieviers also in things other than the family life. On a personal level, my mother has an MD and PhD as well as a successfull medical career and still found enough time to have three kids. I guess its all about priorities.
And when they are 45, they will find that their careers are not interesting enough.
Yes, morons tend to breed morons. (Just look at the genetic decline of the Kennedys) It is not in society's interest for bright babes to be so infertile.
Oh. Lord help you on this thread!
That's because a high Intelligence Quotient doesn't always translate into common sense.
You can get so well educated in America that your thoughts become detached from common sense. You can get so complicated in your thinking that the obvious isn't real to you anymore. This is the phenomenon known as "overly-educated", and it's primarily an affliction of liberals, but not always so.
When an "overly educated", and "common sense challenged", woman looks for a husband in the real world she's ill equipped for the task, and usually settles for a husband whose as clueless as she is.
Mostly in agreement here. I have found that there are quite a few men who do not like smart women, but the men I have dated/married preferred women with a brain in their head.
"I love intelligent women. I just wish they were more interested in me!"
Kinda opening yourself up there a bit don't ya think?
Brainy people should not get married. If they have some children, the children should be passed off to relatives for rearing. This should free brainy people to use their gift instead of burning their talents trying to cope with family life. Live in a fifty foot tower for 30 years like Copernicus. Brainy people should also not have to hold a job just to make a living, but should be free to think and develop whatever thoughts occur to brainy people.
What did your father do for a living?
Maybe she's young, but she's in Advanced Physics already.
Exactly.
"And this I set down as a positive truth. A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES." --- W. M. Thackeray
I don't think this articl is about smart women or intelligent women. This would be better read as "career women" unlikely to marry.
This is just a veiled effort to conceal the reality of why some women will NEVER marry or even be asked to marry. Particularly with the majority of college students being women. Remember the old story of a woman more likely to be hijacked on a plane to Cuba than get married over 40?
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