Does high IQ cause fewer Babies?

Ratna Srivastava
R Blogs
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4 min readFeb 23, 2023

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Interesting connection between high IQ range and low birth rate

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  1. High IQ people have more interest in studying, researching, discovering, exploring or solving problems than making babies. They also do their Math of having babies without being emotionally/ mentally/ psychologically/ /financially ready for it. Others will just jump in or leap without looking.
  2. They have less time, less focus/attention, less fixation/desire/obsession for baby making. Many will tell you they find sex and family matters much too dull or boring to waste their precious time/energy on. (When people are goal/career oriented they usually put baby plans on back burners irrespective of their IQ range.)
  3. Their need for joy, pleasure and satisfaction gets somewhat ‘met’ through their other pursuits. High IQ people derive nearly same pleasure from their high intellectual/ brainy activities which normal people do from sex, other pleasure and entertainment modes.
  4. Sex and physical relationship matters may be highest priority on many people’s list but not always on a high IQ’s. Research findings say high IQ people are more likely to stay virgin for an older age than non high IQ people. Indeed, most teenage pregnancies, young…

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Ratna Srivastava
R Blogs

Author of Emit Eht (Science-Fiction/Metaphysical and Visionary Romance) Children’s Author, Thinker, Philosopher. Editor R Blogs, R Quotes.