Researchers from Aberdeen, Bristol, Edinburgh and Glasgow universities discovered that high-IQ women saw marriage prospects fall dramatically, but men with high IQs had little trouble finding a mate. They found that for each 16-point rise in a woman’s IQ, her marriage prospects declined by 40%, but the man’s chances of marriage increased by 35% with each rise.
Did it ever occur to these researchers to stop for a moment and ponder if these women (and men) simply did not want to get married? Duh.
And more to the point - I thought we’d established that IQ wasn’t exactly the best thing to measure other things by? Just because you’re intelligent does not mean you can function well enough socially to get someone to propose.
The funny thing is, this came from an article about a “fabulous” woman who could not find a man because he fabulousness gets in the way. I don’t know how about her, but when someone tells me they speak five languages, I stop speaking with shock, not intimidation. This woman doesn’t sound very fabulous to me. She sounds self-involved and arrogant.
I think her mistake on the date with the doctor probably wasn’t her speaking five languages and chatting up the owner in Italian: it was probably the fact that she spent her date showing off her language skills to another man.
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