if u're a genius...

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Marriage may tame genius
Creative genius and crime express themselves early in men but both are turned off almost like a tap if a man gets married and has children, a study says.

Satoshi Kanazawa, a psychologist at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, compiled a database of the biographies of 280 great scientists, noting their age at the time when they made their greatest work.

The data remarkably concur with the brutal observation made by Albert Einstein, who wrote in 1942: "A person who has not made his great contribution to science before the age of 30 will never do so."

"Scientific productivity indeed fades with age," Dr Kanazawa says.

"Two-thirds (of all scientists) will have made their most significant contributions before their mid-30s."

But, regardless of age, the great minds who married virtually kissed goodbye to making any further glorious additions to their CV.

Within five years of making their nuptial vows, nearly a quarter of married scientists had made their last significant contribution to history's hall of fame.

"Scientists rather quickly desist (from their careers) after their marriage, while unmarried scientists continue to make great scientific contributions later in their lives," says Dr Kanazawa.

The energy of youth and the dampening effect of marriage, he adds, are also remarkably similar among geniuses in music, painting and writing, as well as in criminal activity.

Previous studies have documented that delinquents are overwhelmingly male, and usually start out on the road to crime in their teens.

But those who marry well, subsequently stop committing crime, whereas criminals at the same age who remain unmarried tend to continue their unlawful careers.

Dr Kanazawa suggests "a single psychological mechanism" is responsible for this: the competitive edge among young men to fight for glory and gain the attention of women.

That craving drives the all-important male hormone, testosterone.

Dr Kanazawa theorises after a man settles down, the testosterone level falls, as does his creative output.

The study appears in in the August issue of the Journal of Research in Personality, published by the Elsevier group.

The British weekly New Scientist reports on it in its upcoming issue on Saturday.

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That's because all of mankind's achievements were created in order to impress the opposite sex.

Let's face it, all these scientist guys wanted was booty. As soon as they got it, they didn't care if e =mc^2.

[Chinese Tourist]

it's probably the testosterone.

it increases competitiveness, drive for dominance (i.e. be the bestest most coolest dude ev4r), sex drive, etc etc..

and is turned off like tap when the guy becomes committed. If the guy works in a high competitive environment, there is the risk of T levels remaining too high, and he may cheat..

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On the side, I wonder about frontal lobe involvement. Supposedly the frontal lobes (front part of the brain, right behind your forehead) do not mature until age 18. Do young teenage males drive recklessly and then restrain themselves because of frontal lobe maturation? Because of T level drop? Because of not wanting to give up their car, or to pay thousands of fines? (which would endanger their continued existence as well as drain resources to impress wimmin & support chillin)

[AliBabaIncorporated]

Hmm, what about female scientists?

[deez nuts]

Originally posted by AliBabaIncorporated@Jul 11 2003, 04:15 AM
Hmm, what about female scientists?

penis envy?

[mrazntre]

<!--QuoteBegin-Chasiubao_Boy+Jul 11 2003, 02:16 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Chasiubao_Boy @ Jul 11 2003, 02:16 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> penis envy? [/b][/quote]
i have vaginal envy...

i envy to be inside their vagina while they envy my penis to be in their vagina.

[Faithless]

<!--QuoteBegin-Uncle Tat+Jul 10 2003, 08:23 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Uncle Tat @ Jul 10 2003, 08:23 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> That's because all of mankind's achievements were created in order to impress the opposite sex.

Let's face it, all these scientist guys wanted was booty.&nbsp; As soon as they got it, they didn't care if e =mc^2. [/b][/quote]
But they keep looking for the solution to the square root of 69 (ate something).

It is harder to read all the techie stuff for hours on end and sit there are tinker at the computer, trying to figure out jsp when you got to burp the babe and wash the laundry.&nbsp;

But then, Al Einstein probably would have sucked at fatherhood, too.

[Xanadu]

<!--QuoteBegin-Uncle Tat+Jul 10 2003, 08:23 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Uncle Tat @ Jul 10 2003, 08:23 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> That's because all of mankind's achievements were created in order to impress the opposite sex.

Let's face it, all these scientist guys wanted was booty.&nbsp; As soon as they got it, they didn't care if e =mc^2. [/b][/quote]
I hope that was meant as a joke, otherwise it's a very silly comment.&nbsp; :o