Education Vs. Fertility

It is an article where we talk about education and women's intelligence and how it directly affects many children, she will give birth. While it might seem logical that if a person is educated, they will be able to support a large family, and if this is true of educated women rarely grow large families.


Before you start on the title say "fertility" but I do not mean the ability to have children not affected by the IQ or education of the individual. Rather I mean how many children a woman can not have the number of children you have.

The first time you performed the test was in 1900, which was before we implemented the system for measuring the IQ of a person. Instead, looked at the men listed in Who's Who ", and men were more intelligent and not, on average, more education were those who had fewer children. During World War 2, they did a second test and I have seen different results, on average, educated people have a slightly higher risk of having more children. But then, many scientists rejected it because it took place in a small area and included only white people.

After several tests were busiest, which included various methods and all municipalities with similar results. It was also found that on average, educated black women have fewer children than the educated white woman. The person who finally came out with figures that is most accepted today in the relationship between fertility and IQ was a man named Richard Lyn'n.

Originally, these studies have focused on IQ, but, later, in 1999, the experiment was conducted directly to the formation of the individual, rather than intelligence. They found that high school dropouts had more children (2.5) were the college boys had the lowest (1.56).

It was a fact that has confused many people because a person who is smarter, is generally more successful and it can support a large family. But some of the possible reasons are as follows. When a woman marries a younger age, she has several children, on average, educated women marry later in life. Even educated women more often survive labor (the explanation is simple: the educated woman goes to the doctor more easily track the progress of their baby). While this is confusing for a woman who has less chance of surviving birth generally have a higher birth rate. There are other explanations as well, but it is generally accepted.