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Sep 24, 2011 - ST Forum
DR LEE Siew Peng's sentiments on choice of marriage partner ("Mum's the word on smarter children"; Wednesday) made for excellent food for thought.
It is not that men feel inferior linked in matrimony to a more successful or more intelligent spouse. Rather, such women are rarely attracted to men they regard as mere mortals.
While it is generally true that intelligence can be perpetuated through offspring, the supremely intelligent and the geniuses hardly ever produce children whose ability exceeds theirs. Reversion to the mean is far more common.
Often enough, children born with lesser genes catch up given the proper stimulation and challenges. Prodigies are born with their neuronal connections in place. These connections also develop in normal people, albeit later.
Where the child turns out excellent, we pat ourselves on the back thinking that his success was because of us, when in fact, it is in spite of us. Where children fail, there is always society to blame.
To contemplate eugenics is to go down a long and slippery slope. Just ask the Nazis.
Dr Yik Keng Yeong
i anything will do.....cuz im probably smartest person on earth.:)
as long as they come in a red or black string bikini and high heels..:)
and big breasts...some tummy muscles is preferred too..
as long as look good chained to dungeon wall.....
yes girls are only able to conceive a few times in her lifetime so they will seek the best genes to procreate
Godwin law fulfilled in TS.... End of discussion.
Men don't want to marry smart women, or is it smart women don't want to marry ordinary men.
omg. do men still want prawn-peeler these days?
I'm the prawn peeler of the family...
precisely why snoopig haben marry me yet.
Did I just hear date of expiry screaming...
Originally posted by Aneslayer:I'm the prawn peeler of the family...
sheller
you male?
Did I detect a juvenile poke in my choice of username....
疑心病很�.......
look at the famiLEE what they got intelligent plus intelligent = albino.
Some children of hawkers and illiterate are intelligent and doing well in their career.
Originally posted by Aneslayer:Did I detect a juvenile poke in my choice of username....
Ai meng loves you.... woo!
this is because a smarter woman is able to provide for herself more than the man does
naturally a man will see the woman has no need of him to provide for her, care for her. he feels he is not needed
Originally posted by gorgorlokaychyong:look at the famiLEE what they got intelligent plus intelligent = albino.
Some children of hawkers and illiterate are intelligent and doing well in their career.
lol as if genes have anything to do with the famiLEE's success.
smart men will marry smarter women than him so that the women can support him
How to know a woman smarter than the man while they are a couple?
Originally posted by FireIce:precisely why snoopig haben marry me yet.
aiyoh laopo why u liddat say
Originally posted by likeyou:How to know a woman smarter than the man while they are a couple?
the woman is more educated, earn more money, got more common sense than the man than you know for sure she is smarter than the man
Originally posted by dechang:
the woman is more educated, earn more money, got more common sense than the man than you know for sure she is smarter than the man
The the topic should say "Why man wont married higher educated woman" hehehe
errr...woman are smart or shrewd?