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The article comes to conclusions using statistics that don't say that at all.
All the study said was:
The study found the likelihood of marriage increased by 35 percent for boys for each 16-point increase in IQ.
But for girls, there is a 40-percent drop for each 16-point rise, according to the survey by the universities of Aberdeen, Bristol, Edinburgh and Glasgow.
It does not consider that the women who are more intelligent may not WANT to get married, are self sufficient and do not NEED to get married. The writer of the article drew the conclusion:
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 published in The Sunday Times newspaper.
The two people they quoted were speculating on reasons for the statistics. This was a correlation study, not a causation study. I told the statisticians I work with about this study (all of whom are women with very high IQs who are married!) and they laughed at the conclusion drawn by the yahoo article.
Dee
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