Smarter Teens Have Less Sex

Tech.Luver writes "Gene Expression reports, "Tyler Cowen quotes from a new study testing the relationship between grades and delayed sexual activity. Last December I passed a paper along to Razib showing that high-school age adolescents with higher IQs and extremely low IQs were less likely to have had first intercourse than those with average to below average intelligence. (i.e. for males with IQs under 70, 63.3% were still virgins, for those with IQs between 70-90 only 50.2% were virgin, 58.6% were virgins with IQs between 90-110, and 70.3% with IQs over 110 were virgins) In fact, a more detailed study from 2000 is devoted strictly to this topic, and finds the same thing: Smart Teens Don't Have Sex (or Kiss Much Either). ""

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[boyfaceddog]

I am a parent of two young children ages 6 and 10. I am 40 years old That means I will be 48 to around 60 when my children are in college.

I have friends who had children right out of college. Their children are now graduating from high school. This means they are paying for education while in their prime earning years and still have twenty years left to vacation and save for retirement. I, on the other hand, will struggle along trying to do all three at once (educate, save, vacation).

Who is smarter?