The Intelligence Paradox by Satoshi Kanazawa

Author:Satoshi Kanazawa
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781118137666
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Published: 2012-03-19T16:00:00+00:00

Figure 7.3 Association between intelligence and having an affair among women

The association between IQ and extramarital affairs remains significant, for both men and women, even after I control for education, income, and social class, as well as race, age, current marital status, number of children, religion, and religiosity. The effect of IQ is much stronger for women than for men. It is not clear to me why more intelligent women are more likely to have affairs than less intelligent women. Interestingly, as is quite often the case, intelligence and education have opposite effects on extramarital affairs for women. While more intelligent women are more likely to have affairs, more educated women are less likely to have them.

Unfortunately, the GSS does not measure the respondent's height or physical attractiveness, so I cannot control for them in the analysis. Add Health and NCDS, both of which do measure height and physical attractiveness, do not measure the respondents' experience of extramarital affairs. It therefore remains to be seen whether the significant association between intelligence and the propensity to have affairs among men is a function of the greater physical attractiveness and height of more intelligent men.

Note that the Intelligence Paradox is about individual preferences and values, what people desire and want in their heads; it's not necessarily about what people actually do. If people have complete choice over their behavior, they are expected to pursue what they desire and want, but they do not always have such complete choice. And, when it comes to sex and mating, men have very little choice.

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