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==IQ and sexual success== | ==IQ and sexual success== | ||
Intelligent people, especially at universities tend to have less sex. A German study suggested academics are at least twice as often incels as other groups (see [[Demographics#Germany|demographics]]). A survey about students from MIT suggested incel rates vary considerably between different fields of study, being the highest for biology and the hard sciences, and lowest in humanities and art.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20050527112706/http://counterpoint.mit.edu/archives/Counterpoint_V21_I3_2001_Nov.pdf</ref> | Intelligent people, especially at universities tend to have less sex. A German study suggested academics are at least twice as often incels as other groups (see [[Demographics#Germany|demographics]]). A survey about students from MIT suggested incel rates vary considerably between different fields of study, being the highest for biology and the hard sciences, and lowest in humanities and art.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20050527112706/http://counterpoint.mit.edu/archives/Counterpoint_V21_I3_2001_Nov.pdf</ref> It is not entirely clear why this is the case and many factors are conceivable: | ||
It is not clear | |||
* High IQ behavior being unattractive | |||
* Prevalence of [[feminism]] shaming male academics to be impotent [[nice guy|nice guys]] | |||
* Educated [[foid|foids]] being reluctant to date less educated men unless their earn substantially more (see [[hypergamy]]) | |||
* Environmentalism making academic men less attractive to women as they are not as materialist also generating an overall future pessimism | |||
* Harder fields of study may have higher incel rates as they are more time consuming | |||
* Professional specialization generally favors slow [[life history]] speed | |||
* Status signaling among upper class might distinguish/polarize itself from activities in lower classes where people produce many offspring for ecological reasons, hoping one child will make it (favoring fast LH) which may be seen as degenerate behavior in higher class circles | |||
* Harder fields of study are also less normative, more evolutionary novel, which might have an alienating effect [[mismatch hypothesis]], reducing social and hence sexual success | |||
One study suggested there is a sweet spot for attractiveness at an IQ of 120 and with declining attractiveness above, which agrees with previously postulated hypothesis that too much of a desirable trait is detrimental. However, it is not clear whether this reflects actual mating choices.<ref>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321640585</ref> The sweet spot being way above the mean demonstrates that intelligence is still under positive [[Fisherian runaway#Intelligence|sexual selection]]. | One study suggested there is a sweet spot for attractiveness at an IQ of 120 and with declining attractiveness above, which agrees with previously postulated hypothesis that too much of a desirable trait is detrimental. However, it is not clear whether this reflects actual mating choices.<ref>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321640585</ref> The sweet spot being way above the mean demonstrates that intelligence is still under positive [[Fisherian runaway#Intelligence|sexual selection]]. | ||