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Intelligence and childlessness.
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Analyses of the National Child Development Study show that more intelligent men and women express preference to remain childless early in their reproductive careers, but only more intelligent women are more likely to remainChildless by the end of their reproductive career.About:
This article is published in Social Science Research.The article was published on 2014-11-01. It has received 46 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Childlessness & Population.read more
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A Treatise on the Family
TL;DR: A Treatise on the Family by G. S. Becker as discussed by the authors is one of the most famous and influential economists of the second half of the 20th century, a fervent contributor to and expounder of the University of Chicago free-market philosophy, and winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in economics.
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Mental Retardation: A Family Study
TL;DR: This is a monumental study of the relatives of 289 persons who lived at Faribault Minnesota State Colony for the Retarded during the years 1911 to 1918—each retardate averaged 25 years of residential care within the institution.
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Personality and voluntary childlessness
Margaret Avison,Adrian Furnham +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the association between personality and childbearing motivation, with a focus on voluntary childlessness, and found that personality plays a considerable role in influencing individuals towards, or away from, parenthood.
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By their words ye shall know them: Evidence of genetic selection against general intelligence and concurrent environmental enrichment in vocabulary usage since the mid 19th century
TL;DR: It has been theorized that declines in general intelligence (g) due to genetic selection stemming from the inverse association between completed fertility and IQ and the Flynn effect co-occur, with the effects of the latter being concentrated on less heritable non-g sources of intelligence variance.
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Iq and socioeconomic development across regions of the uk.
TL;DR: The paper provides evidence for the validity of the regional IQs by showing that IQ estimates for UK nations derived from the same data are strongly correlated with national PISA scores, and finds that regional IQ is positively related to income, longevity and technological accomplishment; and is negatively related to poverty, deprivation and unemployment.
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The g Factor: The Science of Mental Ability
TL;DR: A pesar de la relativamente corta historia de la Psicologia como ciencia, existen pocos constructos psicologicos que perduren 90 anos despues de their formulación and continuen plenamente vigentes in la actualidad as mentioned in this paper.
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An Economic Analysis of Fertility
TL;DR: This paper analyzed family size decisions within an economic framework and found that fertility was determined primarily by two primitive variables, age at marriage and the frequency of co-operation during marriage, and the development and spread of knowledge about contraceptives during the last century greatly widened the scope of family size decision-making.
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Massive IQ gains in 14 nations: What IQ tests really measure.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that IQ tests do not measure intelligence but rather a correlate with a weak causal link to intelligence, which can explain differential trends on various mental tests, such as the combination of IQ gains and Scholastic Aptitude Test losses in the United States.
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The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life.
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The past explains the present: Emotional adaptations and the structure of ancestral environments
John Tooby,Leda Cosmides +1 more
TL;DR: Present conditions and selection pressures are irrelevant to the present design of organisms and do not explain how or why organisms behave adaptively, when they do.