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A German study suggested academics are at least twice as often incels as others (see [[Demographics#Germany|demographics]]).
A German study suggested academics are at least twice as often incels as others (see [[Demographics#Germany|demographics]]).


One reason for this may be that women have a higher level of IQ variability than men, as well ashaving a slightly lower level of general intelligence than men. The skewed sex ratio in favor of men in these highly intellectual demanding fields may partly explain the higher incel rate of men enrolled in such subjects, via a lack of ability to assortatively mate for intelligence, and an overall lack of exposure to women in general, though the co-educational sex ratio of a particular field of study seems to be only weakly associated with men's level of sexual success, and it is therefore unlikely to explain much.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Women_in_STEM#Gender_ratio_and_STEMcel_rates</ref>
One reason for this may be that women have a higher level of IQ variability than men, as well ashaving a slightly lower level of general intelligence than men. The skewed sex ratio in favor of men in these highly intellectual demanding fields may partly explain the higher incel rate of men enrolled in such subjects, via a lack of ability to assortatively mate for intelligence, and an overall lack of exposure to women in general, though the co-educational sex ratio of a particular field of study seems to be only weakly associated with men's level of sexual success, and it is therefore unlikely to explain much.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Women_in_STEM#Gender_ratio_and_STEMcel_rates</ref> Other hypotheses are listed below.


A study by Rosemary Hopcroft of GSS (General Social Survey) data in the US found that, while IQ has little effect on rates of sex of individuals of both sexes, very low IQ men were generally more sexually active than very low IQ women, and higher IQ people were less sexually active overall.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1090513805000619</ref>
A study by Rosemary Hopcroft of GSS (General Social Survey) data in the US found that, while IQ has little effect on rates of sex of individuals of both sexes, very low IQ men were generally more sexually active than very low IQ women, and higher IQ people were less sexually active overall.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1090513805000619</ref>
===Hypotheses===
Nevertheless, it seems clear there is a general link between a high-IQ and a delayed sexual onset in both sexes. It is not entirely certain why this is the case, despite the numerous advantages associated with a high IQ, however many factors are conceivable:
*'''Alienation/mismatch of high IQ tasks''': Modern highly specialized high IQ behavior (especially computer work and engineering) may be sexually unattractive being evolutionary novel ([[mismatchcel|mismatch hypothesis]]) unrelated to communal life, and unrelated to naturally attractive behaviors like dancing, singing, humor and demonstration of physical strength. Though as there does not seem to be any major association between broad athletic ability and IQ, it is unlikely that this would be reflective on any physical inferiority on the behalf of intelligent people in general, but perhaps more of a reflection of the social roles high-IQ people would be drawn to in modern society.<ref>https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23267402.1937.10761836</ref><ref>https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Those-%60Dumb-Jocks%27-Are-at-It-Again%3A-A-Comparison-of-Whitley/456151e51aa3d96e4d62c18275bc00b171a6e885</ref>
*'''Hard sciences''': Harder fields of study may have more incels as they are more evolutionary novel. They are also more time consuming and competitive, reducing time for socializing and hence for sex. Harder courses also tend to have fewer women in them.
*'''Feminism''': The prevalence of [[feminism]] in academia may be shaming male academics to be impotent [[nice guy]]s. The fact that women in Western countries are now substantially more educated than men (especially younger women) indicates that modern academia is not strongly selecting for intelligence but other traits, such as conscientiousness and agreeableness, and that particularly masculine men may be excluded by the academe. So the predominant ideology is likely also reflective of the demographics and traits of the people that are groomed for academia by the modern education system and society as a whole. Intelligent people may also be more likely to be able to correctly discern what ideology is currently dominant in society, and as Western countries are very liberal and very feminist (in historical terms), it is likely that more intelligent people in general therefore tend to conform themselves more to feminist attitudes.
*''' 'Beta behavior' ''': Intelligence has been found to be weakly correlated with pro-social behavior, with this relationship being stronger for verbal intelligence and likely explicable by common genes partially mediating both intelligence and pro-social behavior.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160289620300611</ref> Insofar in that it is commonly claimed that Western women in particular do not like '[[nice guy|nice guys]]', particularly when they are young and not interested in settling down with a [[beta provider]], one would expect intelligent men to be more likely to be lumped in the 'nice guy' category and rejected by women based on this association between intelligence and pro-social behavior.
*'''Hypergamy''': The fact that educated women are generally reluctant to date men unless they earn more money than them (see [[hypergamy]]) may increase incel rates among academics. A singledom crisis has been observed among highly educated women.<ref>https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26747</ref> <br />Though it could also be argued that this would actually increase the demand on highly intelligent men as a group, due to women generally demanding at least parity in terms of social status and education when considering long-term partners and there being a moderate association between intelligence and education level. There is also a moderate positive correlation between intelligence and income.
*'''Environmentalism''': Environmentalism may make academic men less attractive to women as they seem more likely to be drawn to that ideology, with education level being associated with lower participation in activities revolving around conspicuous consumption and greater overall awareness of environmental issues.<ref>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0013916511416647</ref><br />This poses an issue for the sexual success of environmentally conscious men as women generally prefer men who display wealth<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill_(Supplemental)#Women_.28and_men.29_pay_more_attention_to_high_status_men.2C_not_high_status_women</ref> and eat meat.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Vegetarian_men_are_less_attractive.2C_likable.2C_and_masculine_to_women_than_omnivorous_men</ref> <br />It may also serve to generate [[environmentalism|overall pessimism and disinterest in procreation]].<ref>https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11111-021-00379-5</ref>
*'''Slow LH''': Though cognitive specialization, crucial for success in modern society, seems linked to a slower [[life history]] speed, LHS itself seems to be generally unrelated to general intelligence, with the evidence generally showing it may only be related to how intelligence is 'invested' in certain specialized cognitive skills.<ref>https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2013-39868-004</ref><br /> There is however, evidence that higher levels of intelligence are actually linked to a slower life history speed on the most basic level, that is, delayed reproduction.<br />Some research has indicated that the negative relationship between IQ and fertility in men reverses in some samples when age range of men included is extended to men in their middle ages, as low IQ men are much more likely to reproduce young and highly intelligent men are more likely to have children very late compared to lower IQ men.<ref>https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2019.0359</ref><br /> This study also found that more intelligent men generally had their children with a single woman, while less intelligent men were more likely to be serially monogamous. This indicates strong pair-bonding and lower promiscuity among the intelligent in general, also traits hypothesized to be associated with a slow life history strategy.<br />It is also interesting to note that East Asians appear to generally have a slower life history speed compared to other major races. This Asian-slower life history link, combined with the Asian over-representation in higher education in the US,<ref>https://twitter.com/Steve_Sailer/status/1264683376151105537/photo/1M/</ref> may both explain the higher incel rates among Asian men, in particular,<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/File:No_relationship_adoscents.png</ref> and also may partly explain why incel rates are higher among academics (especially those in the hard sciences), at least in the United States where Asians are over-represented among the college-educated.
*'''Polarization with lower class''': Status signaling among upper class might distinguish/polarize itself from activities in lower classes where people produce many offspring for economic reasons, hoping one child will make it (favoring fast LH), thus making rapid production of offspring viewed as uncouth behavior in higher class circles.
*'''Mental illness''': High intelligence predicts neuroticism and various mental disorders in [[Mensa]] members<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289616303324</ref><ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886918302563</ref> and mental issues strongly reduce [[reproductive success]].<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#tocMental</ref> However, Mensans may not be representative as the organization requires a yearly fee in exchange for membership which may attract people who overcompensate for various flaws by boasting about having scored a high IQ. One can also submit the results of various IQ tests to join, and as IQ tests do not correlate perfectly with each other, an outlier result can be used for admission, so this also selects for people who are particularly keen to join in order to brag about their high IQ. Famously, Stephen Hawking said, “joiners are losers”.<ref>https://www.quora.com/Why-did-you-choose-to-leave-Mensa</ref>
*'''Inhibition, cautiousness and responsibility:''' Higher levels of intelligence may be generally associated with greater cautiousness and a propensity to 'overthink' situations which results in lower levels of impulsive and irresponsible behavior. There is evidence that prison inmates with higher IQ's are more well behaved.<ref>https://www.utdallas.edu/news/2012/5/1-17541_Study-Prison-Inmate-Intelligence-Influences-Miscon_article-wide.html</ref> High IQ people have fewer conduct problems in school<ref>http://www.lscp.net/persons/ramus/docs/INTELL18B.pdf</ref> and higher job performance as well <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)</ref> Some low IQ couples are so impulsive they even have sex in school, in the back of the classroom, during the lesson.<ref>https://www.wfsb.com/news/students-face-charges-after-video-shows-them-having-sex-in/article_3adabd96-c5b9-11e8-bfe8-93cd1d661f85.html</ref>Impulsivity appears to be a strong predictor of sexual success, particularly among men, with teenager boys with ADHD having twice the number of sexual partners,<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Teenage_boys_with_ADHD_have_double_the_amount_of_sexual_partners_vs._.27normal.27_teens</ref> it being found a variant in the [[dopamine]] transporter gene associated with impulsive behavior is associated with a 80-100% higher lifetime sexual partner count among adult men,<ref>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17245411/</ref> and there is also evidence young people who drink more alcohol have much higher likelihoods of having recently had multiple sexual partners.<ref>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9859017/</ref> Thus, if intelligent people are less likely to behave impulsively and engage in risky behaviors like binge drinking, this could partly explain the lower partner counts among the more intelligent, as cautious, responsible behavior appears to curtail many opportunities for engaging in casual sex. Behavioral inhibition could also be directly unattractive to women, as some studies only find a relationship between genes for impulsiveness and sexual partner count in men, though this relationship could be due to women's more passive courtship style, with men generally expected to perform the initial approach and escalate first every step of the way up to sex.
*'''Assortative mating''': there is substantial assortative mating for intelligence (people preferring to form relationships with those of roughly similar intelligence to themselves). As there are exponentially more men than women at very high levels of intelligence (> 130),<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill_(Supplemental)#Women_have_a_slightly_lower_average_IQ_which_drastically_reduces_their_intellectual_output</ref> it could be that these men may struggle more to form romantic relationships with women than less intelligent men, due to the much fewer amount of women with a similar level of intelligence to themselves. This is assuming that women don't exhibit [[hypergamy]] in terms of intelligence, which would be predicted somewhat by their preference for men with higher levels of status and resources, the attainment of which is moderately associated with intelligence.
*'''Low IQ is actually attractive to women''': Low IQ ''men'' have more sex. A study conducted by Halpern et. al (2000) found the most sexually active individuals were in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient#/media/File:IQ_distribution.svg 75-90 IQ] range for males, with these males being found to be the least likely to be virgins as adolescents. An IQ below 70 is generally considered to constitute an intellectual disability. 46.7% of low IQ men were sexually active, while only 18.4% of low IQ women were. Thus, low IQ men were 2.5x as likely as low IQ women to be sexually successful.<ref>Hapern CT, Joyner K, Udry JR, Suchindran C. 2000. ''Smart teens don't have sex (or kiss much either).'' J Adolesc Health. 26(3): 213-25. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10706169?dopt</ref> <br /> There is also evidence that IQ and scores on highly g-loaded standardized tests may be weakly negatively associated with female evaluations of male romantic desirability.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Looks_are_most_important_to_women_in_blind_dating</ref><ref>https://psyarxiv.com/qv3eh/</ref>
*'''Endogenous personality''': The psychiatrist and former evolutionary psychologist, Dr. Bruce Charlton, has claimed that genius is characterized by an "[[endogenous personality]]" centered around inward motivation and social disinterest. He uses this theory to explain why many noteworthy historical geniuses were [[protocel|often socially isolated, sexually unsuccessful, childless]] and did not achieve evolutionary success in terms of maximizing individual fitness.
*'''Bioenergetic tradeoffs''': Though some evidence (noted above) indicates that more intelligent people are partly more intelligent because their brain is more efficient at utilizing the energetic resources available to it on a cellular level, it is important to note that the human brain in general is extremely energetically demanding, even relative to its large size. It could be that there is a trade-off involved at a basic level between investment into large brains and investment into other physiological functions,<ref>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5651807/</ref> which could include general mating effort, level of social involvement, competitiveness etc. There is a limited amount of evidence that there is a potential energetic tradeoff at play between larger brains (associated with greater intelligence) and fertility, with one Swedish scientist discovering that guppies he had deliberate bred for greater intelligence and larger brains had reduced fertility as a result. Thus suggesting a basic energetic tradeoff between intelligence and [[reproductive success]] in most animal species, with greater encephalization (size of brain relative to body) also seemingly being associated with lower fertility, cross-species.<ref>https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/scientists-breed-smarter-fish-but-reveal-the-costs-of-big-brains</ref>
<!-- LARGELY SUPERFLOUS HERE, SAVE THIS FOR DYSGENICS SECTION Overall the science points to substantial [[dysgenics]] regarding intelligence, though this is largely driven by the tendency of intelligent women to refuse to reproduce. Some also speculate that [[assortative mating]] in IQ (spouse correlations ~0.40)<ref>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4270739/</ref> will lead to lower social mobility among the less intelligent,<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886913006399</ref> perhaps even leading to caste systems based on IQ forming.<ref>https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2012/01/13/class-caste-and-genes/</ref>-->


===IQ and fertility===
===IQ and fertility===
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This explanation is not mutually exclusive with an alternate explanation that poorly educated and low-status men, which men with executive functioning deficits would be more likely to be, are generally less desirable to women and less likely to be mated, mirroring greater female preferences for status in long-term versus short-term relationships,<ref>https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/723/</ref> and also supported by evidence that suggests lower long-term relationship stability when women are 'dating down' in status.<ref>https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/status-leakage-women-men-housework-st-john-s-1.4646453</ref>
This explanation is not mutually exclusive with an alternate explanation that poorly educated and low-status men, which men with executive functioning deficits would be more likely to be, are generally less desirable to women and less likely to be mated, mirroring greater female preferences for status in long-term versus short-term relationships,<ref>https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/723/</ref> and also supported by evidence that suggests lower long-term relationship stability when women are 'dating down' in status.<ref>https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/status-leakage-women-men-housework-st-john-s-1.4646453</ref>


===Hypotheses===
===Why can high IQ people be failures?===
Nevertheless, it seems clear there is a general link between a high-IQ and a delayed sexual onset in both sexes. It is not entirely certain why this is the case, despite the numerous advantages associated with a high IQ, however many factors are conceivable:
*'''Alienation/mismatch of high IQ tasks''': Modern highly specialized high IQ behavior (especially computer work and engineering) may be sexually unattractive being evolutionary novel ([[mismatchcel|mismatch hypothesis]]) unrelated to communal life, and unrelated to naturally attractive behaviors like dancing, singing, humor and demonstration of physical strength. Though as there does not seem to be any major association between broad athletic ability and IQ, it is unlikely that this would be reflective on any physical inferiority on the behalf of intelligent people in general, but perhaps more of a reflection of the social roles high-IQ people would be drawn to in modern society.<ref>https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23267402.1937.10761836</ref><ref>https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Those-%60Dumb-Jocks%27-Are-at-It-Again%3A-A-Comparison-of-Whitley/456151e51aa3d96e4d62c18275bc00b171a6e885</ref>
*'''Hard sciences''': Harder fields of study may have more incels as they are more evolutionary novel. They are also more time consuming and competitive, reducing time for socializing and hence for sex. Harder courses also tend to have fewer women in them.
*'''Feminism''': The prevalence of [[feminism]] in academia may be shaming male academics to be impotent [[nice guy]]s. The fact that women in Western countries are now substantially more educated than men (especially younger women) indicates that modern academia is not strongly selecting for intelligence but other traits, such as conscientiousness and agreeableness, and that particularly masculine men may be excluded by the academe. So the predominant ideology is likely also reflective of the demographics and traits of the people that are groomed for academia by the modern education system and society as a whole. Intelligent people may also be more likely to be able to correctly discern what ideology is currently dominant in society, and as Western countries are very liberal and very feminist (in historical terms), it is likely that more intelligent people in general therefore tend to conform themselves more to feminist attitudes.
*''' 'Beta behavior' ''': Intelligence has been found to be weakly correlated with pro-social behavior, with this relationship being stronger for verbal intelligence and likely explicable by common genes partially mediating both intelligence and pro-social behavior.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160289620300611</ref> Insofar in that it is commonly claimed that Western women in particular do not like '[[nice guy|nice guys]]', particularly when they are young and not interested in settling down with a [[beta provider]], one would expect intelligent men to be more likely to be lumped in the 'nice guy' category and rejected by women based on this association between intelligence and pro-social behavior.
*'''Hypergamy''': The fact that educated women are generally reluctant to date men unless they earn more money than them (see [[hypergamy]]) may increase incel rates among academics. A singledom crisis has been observed among highly educated women.<ref>https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26747</ref> <br />Though it could also be argued that this would actually increase the demand on highly intelligent men as a group, due to women generally demanding at least parity in terms of social status and education when considering long-term partners and there being a moderate association between intelligence and education level. There is also a moderate positive correlation between intelligence and income.
*'''Environmentalism''': Environmentalism may make academic men less attractive to women as they seem more likely to be drawn to that ideology, with education level being associated with lower participation in activities revolving around conspicuous consumption and greater overall awareness of environmental issues.<ref>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0013916511416647</ref><br />This poses an issue for the sexual success of environmentally conscious men as women generally prefer men who display wealth<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill_(Supplemental)#Women_.28and_men.29_pay_more_attention_to_high_status_men.2C_not_high_status_women</ref> and eat meat.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Vegetarian_men_are_less_attractive.2C_likable.2C_and_masculine_to_women_than_omnivorous_men</ref> <br />It may also serve to generate [[environmentalism|overall pessimism and disinterest in procreation]].<ref>https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11111-021-00379-5</ref>
*'''Slow LH''': Though cognitive specialization, crucial for success in modern society, seems linked to a slower [[life history]] speed, LHS itself seems to be generally unrelated to general intelligence, with the evidence generally showing it may only be related to how intelligence is 'invested' in certain specialized cognitive skills.<ref>https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2013-39868-004</ref><br /> There is however, evidence that higher levels of intelligence are actually linked to a slower life history speed on the most basic level, that is, delayed reproduction.<br />Some research has indicated that the negative relationship between IQ and fertility in men reverses in some samples when age range of men included is extended to men in their middle ages, as low IQ men are much more likely to reproduce young and highly intelligent men are more likely to have children very late compared to lower IQ men.<ref>https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2019.0359</ref><br /> This study also found that more intelligent men generally had their children with a single woman, while less intelligent men were more likely to be serially monogamous. This indicates strong pair-bonding and lower promiscuity among the intelligent in general, also traits hypothesized to be associated with a slow life history strategy.<br />It is also interesting to note that East Asians appear to generally have a slower life history speed compared to other major races. This Asian-slower life history link, combined with the Asian over-representation in higher education in the US,<ref>https://twitter.com/Steve_Sailer/status/1264683376151105537/photo/1M/</ref> may both explain the higher incel rates among Asian men, in particular,<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/File:No_relationship_adoscents.png</ref> and also may partly explain why incel rates are higher among academics (especially those in the hard sciences), at least in the United States where Asians are over-represented among the college-educated.
*'''Polarization with lower class''': Status signaling among upper class might distinguish/polarize itself from activities in lower classes where people produce many offspring for economic reasons, hoping one child will make it (favoring fast LH), thus making rapid production of offspring viewed as uncouth behavior in higher class circles.
*'''Mental illness''': High intelligence predicts neuroticism and various mental disorders in [[Mensa]] members<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289616303324</ref><ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886918302563</ref> and mental issues strongly reduce [[reproductive success]].<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#tocMental</ref> However, Mensans may not be representative as the organization requires a yearly fee in exchange for membership which may attract people who overcompensate for various flaws by boasting about having scored a high IQ. One can also submit the results of various IQ tests to join, and as IQ tests do not correlate perfectly with each other, an outlier result can be used for admission, so this also selects for people who are particularly keen to join in order to brag about their high IQ. Famously, Stephen Hawking said, “joiners are losers”.<ref>https://www.quora.com/Why-did-you-choose-to-leave-Mensa</ref>
*'''Inhibition, cautiousness and responsibility:''' Higher levels of intelligence may be generally associated with greater cautiousness and a propensity to 'overthink' situations which results in lower levels of impulsive and irresponsible behavior. There is evidence that prison inmates with higher IQ's are more well behaved.<ref>https://www.utdallas.edu/news/2012/5/1-17541_Study-Prison-Inmate-Intelligence-Influences-Miscon_article-wide.html</ref> High IQ people have fewer conduct problems in school<ref>http://www.lscp.net/persons/ramus/docs/INTELL18B.pdf</ref> and higher job performance as well <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)</ref> Some low IQ couples are so impulsive they even have sex in school, in the back of the classroom, during the lesson.<ref>https://www.wfsb.com/news/students-face-charges-after-video-shows-them-having-sex-in/article_3adabd96-c5b9-11e8-bfe8-93cd1d661f85.html</ref>Impulsivity appears to be a strong predictor of sexual success, particularly among men, with teenager boys with ADHD having twice the number of sexual partners,<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Teenage_boys_with_ADHD_have_double_the_amount_of_sexual_partners_vs._.27normal.27_teens</ref> it being found a variant in the [[dopamine]] transporter gene associated with impulsive behavior is associated with a 80-100% higher lifetime sexual partner count among adult men,<ref>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17245411/</ref> and there is also evidence young people who drink more alcohol have much higher likelihoods of having recently had multiple sexual partners.<ref>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9859017/</ref> Thus, if intelligent people are less likely to behave impulsively and engage in risky behaviors like binge drinking, this could partly explain the lower partner counts among the more intelligent, as cautious, responsible behavior appears to curtail many opportunities for engaging in casual sex. Behavioral inhibition could also be directly unattractive to women, as some studies only find a relationship between genes for impulsiveness and sexual partner count in men, though this relationship could be due to women's more passive courtship style, with men generally expected to perform the initial approach and escalate first every step of the way up to sex.
*'''Assortative mating''': there is substantial assortative mating for intelligence (people preferring to form relationships with those of roughly similar intelligence to themselves). As there are exponentially more men than women at very high levels of intelligence (> 130),<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill_(Supplemental)#Women_have_a_slightly_lower_average_IQ_which_drastically_reduces_their_intellectual_output</ref> it could be that these men may struggle more to form romantic relationships with women than less intelligent men, due to the much fewer amount of women with a similar level of intelligence to themselves. This is assuming that women don't exhibit [[hypergamy]] in terms of intelligence, which would be predicted somewhat by their preference for men with higher levels of status and resources, the attainment of which is moderately associated with intelligence.
*'''Low IQ is actually attractive to women''': Low IQ ''men'' have more sex. A study conducted by Halpern et. al (2000) found the most sexually active individuals were in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient#/media/File:IQ_distribution.svg 75-90 IQ] range for males, with these males being found to be the least likely to be virgins as adolescents. An IQ below 70 is generally considered to constitute an intellectual disability. 46.7% of low IQ men were sexually active, while only 18.4% of low IQ women were. Thus, low IQ men were 2.5x as likely as low IQ women to be sexually successful.<ref>Hapern CT, Joyner K, Udry JR, Suchindran C. 2000. ''Smart teens don't have sex (or kiss much either).'' J Adolesc Health. 26(3): 213-25. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10706169?dopt</ref> <br /> There is also evidence that IQ and scores on highly g-loaded standardized tests may be weakly negatively associated with female evaluations of male romantic desirability.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Looks_are_most_important_to_women_in_blind_dating</ref><ref>https://psyarxiv.com/qv3eh/</ref>
*'''Endogenous personality''': The psychiatrist and former evolutionary psychologist, Dr. Bruce Charlton, has claimed that genius is characterized by an "[[endogenous personality]]" centered around inward motivation and social disinterest. He uses this theory to explain why many noteworthy historical geniuses were [[protocel|often socially isolated, sexually unsuccessful, childless]] and did not achieve evolutionary success in terms of maximizing individual fitness.
*'''Bioenergetic tradeoffs''': Though some evidence (noted above) indicates that more intelligent people are partly more intelligent because their brain is more efficient at utilizing the energetic resources available to it on a cellular level, it is important to note that the human brain in general is extremely energetically demanding, even relative to its large size. It could be that there is a trade-off involved at a basic level between investment into large brains and investment into other physiological functions,<ref>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5651807/</ref> which could include general mating effort, level of social involvement, competitiveness etc. There is a limited amount of evidence that there is a potential energetic tradeoff at play between larger brains (associated with greater intelligence) and fertility, with one Swedish scientist discovering that guppies he had deliberate bred for greater intelligence and larger brains had reduced fertility as a result. Thus suggesting a basic energetic tradeoff between intelligence and [[reproductive success]] in most animal species, with greater encephalization (size of brain relative to body) also seemingly being associated with lower fertility, cross-species.<ref>https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/scientists-breed-smarter-fish-but-reveal-the-costs-of-big-brains</ref>
<!-- LARGELY SUPERFLOUS HERE, SAVE THIS FOR DYSGENICS SECTION Overall the science points to substantial [[dysgenics]] regarding intelligence, though this is largely driven by the tendency of intelligent women to refuse to reproduce. Some also speculate that [[assortative mating]] in IQ (spouse correlations ~0.40)<ref>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4270739/</ref> will lead to lower social mobility among the less intelligent,<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886913006399</ref> perhaps even leading to caste systems based on IQ forming.<ref>https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2012/01/13/class-caste-and-genes/</ref>-->
===Other hypotheses===
==='Troubled genius' trope===
==='Troubled genius' trope===
Evidence shows very high (outlier) intelligence is associated with social maladjustment, possibly caused by difficulties in social intercourse among people of different intelligence levels. This greater social maladjustment on behalf of the very intelligent, if accurate, would suggest a link between extreme levels of intelligence and involuntary celibacy as social exclusion and low achievement do not tend to be generally good things regarding men's romantic prospects.
Evidence shows very high (outlier) intelligence is associated with social maladjustment, possibly caused by difficulties in social intercourse among people of different intelligence levels. This greater social maladjustment on behalf of the very intelligent, if accurate, would suggest a link between extreme levels of intelligence and involuntary celibacy as social exclusion and low achievement do not tend to be generally good things regarding men's romantic prospects.
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