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Posted on 07/11/2003 10:02:49 AM PDT by CanadianFella
PARIS (AFP) - Creative genius and crime express themselves early in men but both are turned off almost like a tap if a man gets married and has children, a study says.
Satoshi Kanazawa, a psychologist at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, compiled a database of the biographies of 280 great scientists, noting their age at the time when they made their greatest work.
The data remarkably concur with the brutal observation made by Albert Einstein, who wrote in 1942: "A person who has not made his great contribution to science before the age of 30 will never do so."
"Scientific productivity indeed fades with age," Kanazawa says. "Two-thirds (of all scientists) will have made their most significant contributions before their midthirties."
But, regardless of age, the great minds who married virtually kissed goodbye to making any further glorious additions to their CV.
Within five years of making their nuptial vows, nearly a quarter of married scientists had made their last significant contribution to history's Hall of Fame.
"Scientists rather quickly desist (from their careers) after their marriage, while unmarried scientists continue to make great scientific contributions later in their lives," says Kanazawa.
The energy of youth and the dampening effect of marriage, he adds, are also remarkably similar among geniuses in music, painting and writing, as well as in criminal activity.
Previous studies have documented that delinquents are overwhelmingly male, and usually start out on the road to crime in their teens.
But those who marry well subsequently stop committing crime, whereas criminals at the same age who remain unmarried tend to continue their unlawful careers.
Kanazawa suggests "a single psychological mechanism" is responsible for this: the competitive edge among young men to fight for glory and gain the attention of women. That craving drives the all-important male hormone, testosterone.
After a man settles down, the testosterone level falls, as does his creative output, Kanazawa theorises.
The study appears in the August issue of the Journal of Research in Personality, published by the Elsevier group. The British weekly New Scientist reports on it in its upcoming issue on Saturday.
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Yea, sure.....
What?!? Oh, shoot...
The single explanation is an oversimplification. However, being married usually means you have to minister to the insecurities of your mate. This can lead to multiple "tests" per day to see if you really "care." If you aren't "thinking of them" they will attempt to correct that error. The constant stream of punishments and manipulation to that end will cause any man to lose focus.
When you are thinking big thoughts, you need huge blocks of time to think without major interruption. Most women would divorce at such a slight. Obviously if you aren't attenting to them, you "love your work more than them" etc etc etc.
And here in Ohio, marriage causes women to get big butts.
Oh wait. As it turns out almost all of his great works were composed while he was married and after the kids were born.
I guess the geniuses that come up with these generalities are, themselves, married.
And while they carp about how they would rather have their husband's attention than the money he's trying to earn.....rigggghhhhhhht! That's why she'll want the kids, house, car, half of his 401K and 1/3 of his take home pay....there is no pleasing them.
Sheesh, sounds like my ex husband.
Once you can command gravitons, you won't need the magnet. But keep the Porsche, just in case.
Perhaps, unlike yourself, they actually understand the difference between "average" and "exception." We were taught the concept in grade school. Perhaps you didn't get that far in your studies.
You seem angry. I'll put you down as married then.
Other "exceptions":
Gustav Mahler
Richard Wagner
Robert Schumann
Wolfgang Mozart
Charles Dickens
Mark Twain
Tom Clancy
Pablo Picasso
John Singer Sargent
All exceptional, and I'm only getting warmed up.
At some point, when you make blanket assertions, and the exceptions to the rule start to outnumber the pegs you've managed to jam into your little fischerprice toy, you start to look, well...not very exceptional.
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