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http://www.gnxp.com/blog/2007/04/intercourse-and-intelligence.php http://www.gnxp.com/blog/2007/04/intercourse-and-intelligenc... Depending on the specific age

http://www.gnxp.com/blog/2007/04/intercourse-and-intelligence.php http://www.gnxp.com/blog/2007/04/intercourse-and-intelligenc... Depending on the specific age and gender, an adolescent with an IQ of 100 was 1.5 to 5 times more likely to have had intercourse than a teen with a score of 120 or 130. Each additional point of IQ increased the odds of virginity by 2.7% for males and 1.7% for females.

rdouble 17y ago
What does this have to do with the article? How did you get so many upvotes? Are you that creepy guy who was banned for bringing up "casual sex" in every other thread? edit - seriously though... did I miss something? I didn't see the word sex mentioned in the original article, or the word terrorism mentioned in the second article...
- dandelany 17y ago
  He's trying to make a tenuous leap to suggest that engineers are smart, smart people are sexually repressed, and sexually repressed people are more likely to be violent. I understand what he's saying, but I don't buy it. Claiming that terrorists' grievances are based in deeply-rooted sexual problems is juvenile, and doesn't respect the gravity or history of the situation, IMHO.
  - gjm11 17y ago
    Especially as (e.g.) there doesn't seem to be any similar terroristic tendency among physicists, who are also very smart (anecdotally I'd say: slightly smarter on average) and smart in broadly similar ways. (Note: "on average" means just that; I know some very, very smart engineers.)
Semiapies 17y ago
And? Where are all the Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, etc. Virginal Nerd Terrorists? Where are the Sufi VNTs? That's beyond the silliness of blindly applying American sexual patterns to Middle Eastern societies, of course. We could more sensibly ask, "Why are radical Wahhabi groups (and those of some sects) so good at/so focused on recruiting Muslim engineering students?", except even that's too broad and dubious a claim. A pool of 400 people (over decades, no less) doesn't strike me as a great pool for analysis beyond, "international Muslim terrorists tend to be educated and have some resources", a point you'd expect.

rdouble 17y ago

What does this have to do with the article? How did you get so many upvotes? Are you that creepy guy who was banned for bringing up "casual sex" in every other thread? edit - seriously though... did I miss something? I didn't see the word sex mentioned in the original article, or the word terrorism mentioned in the second article...

dandelany 17y ago
He's trying to make a tenuous leap to suggest that engineers are smart, smart people are sexually repressed, and sexually repressed people are more likely to be violent. I understand what he's saying, but I don't buy it. Claiming that terrorists' grievances are based in deeply-rooted sexual problems is juvenile, and doesn't respect the gravity or history of the situation, IMHO.
- gjm11 17y ago
  Especially as (e.g.) there doesn't seem to be any similar terroristic tendency among physicists, who are also very smart (anecdotally I'd say: slightly smarter on average) and smart in broadly similar ways. (Note: "on average" means just that; I know some very, very smart engineers.)

Semiapies 17y ago

And? Where are all the Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, etc. Virginal Nerd Terrorists? Where are the Sufi VNTs? That's beyond the silliness of blindly applying American sexual patterns to Middle Eastern societies, of course. We could more sensibly ask, "Why are radical Wahhabi groups (and those of some sects) so good at/so focused on recruiting Muslim engineering students?", except even that's too broad and dubious a claim. A pool of 400 people (over decades, no less) doesn't strike me as a great pool for analysis beyond, "international Muslim terrorists tend to be educated and have some resources", a point you'd expect.