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Why are HIGH IQ Norwegian men having more children?!

Ed walks us through a fascinating recent student on 22 Norwegian birth cohorts

Edward Dutton

Aug 15, 2023

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Amanda

Writes The Literati

Aug 15Liked by Edward Dutton

The same topic was covered in Svenska dagbladet ( https://www.svd.se/a/PR0RyJ/man-med-bra-flas-och-hog-iq-far-fler-barn ) a while ago, so it’s apparently the same here in Sweden. You see a lot of dads running around in Stockholm with strollers actually. Sweden and other Scandinavian countries score very high on Hofstede’s cultural factor of femininity/feminine values. The higher fertility of high-IQ men in Scandinavia could be a reflection of the level of agreeableness in our population, but I wonder if you for example see the same trend in Japan (very masculine cultural values but an agreeable population).

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Ratking

Low-IQ men being unsuccessful on the basis of their alcoholism doesn't sound like it would be the primary factor in having a low fertility rate. There is research that suggests a small positive correlation between IQ and consumption rate. Furthermore, I would argue that alcoholism is more-so a consequence of low iq and poverty rather than a causative factor on its own. I think women would be happy to mate with an alcoholic male if he had height, wealth or good looks. Perhaps it is a deal breaker for poor men, but I also think that low IQ inhibits them in more ways than just drug abuse. Low IQ men being low wealth and out of shape would seem to be larger factors

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