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I don't know if this is feminist bonk, or what? However, it wouldn't entirely surprise me either way; most "intelligent" or "educated" women supplant their mothering instincts, in order to become a "career woman". I know some of you here put great emphasis on settling down with a very intelligent women, but I for one would be content with a women with average or slightly above average intelligence. I'll tell you why: there is this concept in statistics that is called regression to the mean, which insists that all outliers eventually even out with time. So, two parents of average intelligence give birth to a woman of genius intelligence (140 iq +). Hypothetically, lets say that women finds a mate down the road of the same intelligence; they then reproduce and have another daughter. The chance that daughter has the same level of IQ of them is almost infinitesimally small: something like 2% or so. The child will more than likely have an IQ in the 124 - 130 range, which is still not bad! However, that trend will continue for a period of time, until their IQ eventually bottoms out at 105-110 or so.
Living in a well-to-do neighborhood, I see this time and time again: children never fulfill their parents level education or success. I once knew a lawyer who had a son who failed miserably at school: he had to go to summer school a lot, and he couldn't even manage to pass bush-league community college classes. Furthermore, I also knew a son of an anesthesiologist, who drifted through life, working odd menial jobs. I personally have a family of engineers on one side (4 of 5 brothers), with the exception of my uncle who always earned mediocre grades in school - despite extra help.
http://www.halfsigma.com/2009/11/regress...nd-iq.html
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Historian Lucy Worsley caused a furore when she remarked last year that she had been 'educated out of the natural reproductive function'.
Now it seems she might have had a point, after a new study has revealed a clear correlation between intelligence and childlessness - with cleverer women more likely to choose not to have a family.
The study, which was conducted by Satoshi Kanazawa, a researcher at the London School of Economics, found that a woman's urge to have children decreases by a quarter for every 15 extra IQ points
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I don't know if this is feminist bonk, or what? However, it wouldn't entirely surprise me either way; most "intelligent" or "educated" women supplant their mothering instincts, in order to become a "career woman". I know some of you here put great emphasis on settling down with a very intelligent women, but I for one would be content with a women with average or slightly above average intelligence. I'll tell you why: there is this concept in statistics that is called regression to the mean, which insists that all outliers eventually even out with time. So, two parents of average intelligence give birth to a woman of genius intelligence (140 iq +). Hypothetically, lets say that women finds a mate down the road of the same intelligence; they then reproduce and have another daughter. The chance that daughter has the same level of IQ of them is almost infinitesimally small: something like 2% or so. The child will more than likely have an IQ in the 124 - 130 range, which is still not bad! However, that trend will continue for a period of time, until their IQ eventually bottoms out at 105-110 or so.
Living in a well-to-do neighborhood, I see this time and time again: children never fulfill their parents level education or success. I once knew a lawyer who had a son who failed miserably at school: he had to go to summer school a lot, and he couldn't even manage to pass bush-league community college classes. Furthermore, I also knew a son of an anesthesiologist, who drifted through life, working odd menial jobs. I personally have a family of engineers on one side (4 of 5 brothers), with the exception of my uncle who always earned mediocre grades in school - despite extra help.
http://www.halfsigma.com/2009/11/regress...nd-iq.html