Intelligent 'have better sperm'

[Doctor Cynic]

Source: BBC

Men of higher intelligence tend to produce better quality sperm, UK research suggests.

A team from the Institute of Psychiatry analysed data from former US soldiers who served during the Vietnam war era.

They found that those who performed better on intelligence tests tended to have more - and more mobile - sperm.

The study, which appears in the journal Intelligence, appears to support the idea that genes underlying intelligence may have other biological effects too.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7767877.stm

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Does this mean that freepers' sperm tend to be bad quality?

[Deja Q]

1. Let me know when the market value for smart sperm rises.

And as it's been proven nerds and geeks are ostracized and don't get laid as much, it also gives credibility to those why say America has been dumbed down. :P

[KamaAina]

2. Who knew I had a few billion miniature Michael Phelpses swimming around in there?

Not any females, that's for sure. :(

[catnhatnh]

3. I just checked...

and mine looks just like you'ld find in any used condoms. So I either miss the point or just love the challenge...

[mitchum]

4. If I had only known...I could have used that as an excuse!

Wait a minute...I misread that as "bitter"
Sorry

[Festivito]

5. No wonder dictators kill the intelligentsia--increases their chances.

I wonder if their need to reproduce forces their feelings to disdain anything but procreative sex.

Perhaps this would explain why they are so socially conservative, and as well, closeted when not.

And it would explain why they are so adamant about their values.

[ElboRuum]

6. Of course it's bad quality...

...freepers beget more freepers... derrr.

[TygrBright]

7. heehee.... Betcha Obama's sperm can leap tall buildings in a single bound! n/t

[rug]

8. My sperm are so smart they swim in formation.

[mitchum]

10. Ha! My sperm built a boat

:)

[dipsydoodle]

13. Yes but mine

designed the engine for your boat and it runs on sea water for fuel.

[mitchum]

14. Drat!

[PfcHammer]

25. My sperm are honor students

:rofl:

[keroro gunsou]

47. not exactly

you said say, my sperm are future honor students.

[GentryDixon]

9. I wonder how much it cost to figure that out.

[pipoman]

36. Don't know but it sure took a looooong time to compile the data...

[benld74]

11. Really?!

[sofa king]

12. Too bad smarter sperm doesn't make smarter people.

[Uncle Joe]

15. That's because, if intelligent sperm doesn't know the way,

it will at least stop and ask for directions instead of wasting all of it's energy swimming about aimlessly, which by the way also makes intelligent sperm more *environmentally sustainable.

* I was tempted to say green but that might scare some people in regards to sperm.

[BlueIris]

16. Great; more fodder for the pro-eugenics asshats.

Sigh.

[Dr.Phool]

17. Blonde joke coming......must keep mouth shut.......

:spank:

I'm gonna get tombstoned......

Just STFU........

:spank:

Ok, I'm under control now.

[Hannah Bell]

18. "Intelligence" - as measured with what, by who?

freaking nazis.

[AngryAmish]

21. Get over yourself, IQ measures are hardly controversial

The thing about it IQ measures IQ or what is known in the field as "g" general intelligence. Ability to process new information. People with higher G do better in life (on average) then those of us with lower g, because they are smarter.

[Hannah Bell]

27. IQ measures are in fact very controversial, & "g" is bullshit.

[TheDoorbellRang]

34. IQ tests have been controversial for decades

My favorite quote by one of the critics of IQ tests went something like this: "IQ tests can be said to be an accurate measure only of how well a subject takes IQ tests."

[TWiley]

19. Females of higher beauty harvest better sperm

[Honeycombe8]

29. Why use "beauty" as the gauge for women, when "intelligence" is the gauge being discussed?

Women have intelligence, too.

[Quantess]

46. Was that supposed to be funny?

Stupid comment.

[Turbineguy]

20. Sounds like a new pick-up line

for DU males.

[nolabels]

35. Something about the line " Don't worry, i am only stupid enough to be shooting blanks" might......

not work with a more intelligent counter part :D

[jody]

22. When will society decide that only men with high IQ can have more than one child? n/t

[Occulus]

23. At least my gay sperm dresses better

:D

[lumberjack_jeff]

24. What a paradox!

Only an idiot chooses to have kids.

:sarcasm:

[AlphaCentauri]

26. How many kids did Einstein have?

:silly:

[Honeycombe8]

30. You mean that he knew of? He was a womanizer. nt

[ohio2007]

28. what dumbass paid for that "study" ?

If theirs a pay day in it, somebody will tell you what you want to hear

[Honeycombe8]

31. Then why are there so many stooopid people in the world? Are the smart men...

Are the smart men not having sex often enough?

[KittyWampus]

32. could it be that intelligence leads to healthier eating habits which produce healthier sperm?

[0rganism]

33. Intelligent sperm swim smarter, not harder (nt)

[pipoman]

37. I wonder why the people I see with the most kids

usually don't strike me as rocket scientists or brain surgeons...

[librechik]

38. leave Trig alone! It's not Todd's fault!!!!!

he's half Caribou Barbie, too!

[matcom]

39. I'm smarter than a 5th grader

I beat them ALMOST every week!

[JonQ]

40. Which is entirely compensated for

by an increased use of safe sex practices.

So the less intelligent are still able to out breed everyone else.

[bamacrat]

41. Then why do so many unintelligent have so many kids.

There are mega families all over all homeschooling their kids creating little walking talking bible thumpers. Im not saying that bible thumpers are inherently stupid but there are alot of stupid people who have tons of kids. But im sure promiscuity is not taken into account in this study either. But the quality argument makes sense.

[Fumesucker]

42. Perhaps, but the fact remains that there are sperm that can be *too* healthy..

http://www.rawbw.com/~svw/superman.html

(...)

First we must collect the semen. The globules will emerge at transsonic speeds. Superman must first ejaculate, then fly frantically after the stuff to catch it in a test tube. We assume that he is on the Moon, both for privacy and to prevent the semen from exploding into vapor on hitting the air at such speeds.

He can catch the semen, of course, before it evaporates in vacuum. He's faster than a speeding bullet.

But can he keep it?

All known forms of kryptonian life have superpowers. The same must hold true of living kryptonian sperm. We may reasonably assume that kryptonian sperm are vulnerable only to starvation and to green kryptonite; that they can travel with equal ease through water, air, vacuum, glass, brick, boiling steel, solid steel, liquid helium, or the core of a star; and that they are capable of translight velocities.

What kind of a test tube will hold such beasties?

Kryptonian sperm and their unusual powers will give us further trouble. For the moment we will assume (because we must) that they tend to stay in the seminal fluid, which tends to stay in a simple glass tube. Thus Superman and LL can perform artificial insemination.

At least there will be another generation of kryptonians.

Or will there?

(...)

Considerably more hilarity at the link..

[Bake]

43. Then WHY OH WHY are there so many stupid people?

E.g., the Republican Party?

Bake

[Nihil]

44. Simply outnumbered.

See .40 & .41 but the basic premise is that the less intelligent
still have the capacity to breed and take every opportunity to
do so ... thus increasing the numerical superiority of the inferior
sub-type.

Past discussions along these lines tend to turn into a flame-fest
so we'd better leave it there but the current situation supports
the hypothesis that homo sapiens sapiens is just one of the many
species going extinct this century and being rapidly replaced by
homo not-very-sapiens-at-all ...
:shrug:

[Alter Ego]

45. IQ 135, ladies.

:quagmire: