{"id":197,"date":"2007-08-02T08:18:03","date_gmt":"2007-08-02T13:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weeklyrob.dreamhosters.com\/?p=197"},"modified":"2007-08-02T08:18:03","modified_gmt":"2007-08-02T13:18:03","slug":"im-too-sexy-for-your-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=197","title":{"rendered":"I&#039;m too sexy for your brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seedmagazine.com\/\">Seed Magazine<\/a> points to a round-up of discussion of studies showing that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/intercourse-and-intelligence.php\">intelligent people have less sex<\/a> than their average-brained buddies.<\/p>\n<p>As if we didn&#8217;t already know that.<\/p>\n<p>I like looking at all the possibilities behind a finding and the article does a good job at stating them, so I won&#8217;t bother here. But there&#8217;s a pretty funny realization that comes when they look at whether the more intelligent people are not having sex because they&#8217;re more religious.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;this is, of course, not true. Religiousness correlates with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.halfsigma.com\/2006\/06\/religious_peopl.html\">lower IQ<\/a>, and&#8230;intelligent people were also more likely to say that premarital sex was not immoral. (Leaving those who did think it was immoral to participate in the bulk of it!)&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I think that parenthetical is hilarious.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, in case I haven&#8217;t said it for a while, I love Seed. And not just because they printed my letter to the editor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seed Magazine points to a round-up of discussion of studies showing that intelligent people have less sex than their average-brained buddies. As if we didn&#8217;t already know that. I like looking at all the possibilities behind a finding and the article does a good job at stating them, so I won&#8217;t bother here. But there&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanity","category-science-and-such"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}