Are you a monogamous guy? Are you a liberal, atheist and a night owl? Then you are very likely more intelligent than your stupid neighbor.
Sörru. It says Satoshi Kanazawa, a study which will be reported in Social Psychology Quarterly, in March. He has used data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and has found that young people who consider themselves liberal lies about ten IQ points higher than young people who identify themselves as conservatives. About the same separates the young people who identify themselves as atheists from those who identify themselves as very religious. Men who prefer to be monogamous - even if they could get away - have a higher IQ than men who would consider ugly. So it has been betrayed by a man can comfort themselves that he was probably a bit back statt, and not much to collect. Monogamous and polygamous women showed no significant difference in IQ.
Kanazawa is also in a previous study found that people with high IQ have a hard to get into bed at night - and equally difficult to come up in the mornings.
Kanazawa speculate that this may be due to evolutionary development. Man'm in the conservative base was created: oriented around their clan, his family and his own needs and the necessary intelligence to go beyond the given sphere. Early human groups - and some still existing - have been polygynous. That is to say, had family situations where a man can have multiple wives; while women in most known civilizations expected to be monogamous. It is "new" for a man to be willing to stick to one woman, and therefore a marker that he probably is more intelligent than incision.
religion (and of the faith) relationship to intelligence is - according to Kanazawa - on the paranoia. Paranoia is a condition for accepting faith in God or faith. Paranoia tells us that "someone" or "somewhat" behind what is happening omkringoss. Being paranoid is a human survival traits (and religion / faith was once a prerequisite for civilization - but not anymore) and the required again intelligence to get past the paranoia and accept that no divinity govern our existence.
Nattuggleriet then? Have Kanazawa any theory about it? Well - humanity is no longer dependent on daylight for its existence. We must not get up before dawn (though all of us with boring Svenne-job must be understood - but it is not evolutionarily necessary) and go to sleep soon after dusk because we still can not do after dark. Intelligent people (or type B as they are sometimes called) has no built-in need of to be up early and in bed when the cows come home.
Something might be in this - I think of how the kind of companies that want to have real talent always provide flexible hours. Google and Apple, for example, has sovmorgnar or flexible hours that perk for their employees.
Maybe something for companies to compete: it attracts talent pool by offering flex or later start to the day? It'm in any case clear that companies as _haft_ flex but that pull the lose their best and most bright first.
Next time someone early bird bastard at work bores you because you look like swamp monster in the mornings and do not respond when spoken to last n forward eleven coffee break you in, after all, try: "It's because I am intelligent and evolving, and not fucking plattnackad cro magnon-reject not detected that we have artificial light now. "
And when Jehovah's pounding on your door at seven o'clock Saturday: forgive them - for they know not what they actually do.
