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The study is very discriminatory...it's like saying people with higher IQ's are superior, people with lower IQ's are inferior. This sounds like the same type of studies that said blacks had inferior IQ's to whites and Asians. It's like saying so-called 'lower'-IQ people are more feral, more primal, more into lust because sex and sexuality is supposedly associated with the 'reptilian' part of the human brain: 'fight or flight'-and somehow because their less smarter, their more 'reptilian' in their thinking. Lust came come from the reptilian brain, yes, but the associated emotions of love, caring, tenderness, concern come from the more evolved centers of the human brain that all humans have, irregardless of IQ.

Intelligence does not decide degree of sexual activity; individuals do. It's who we are as individuals, our personality, our mindset. Some of the most heinous sex crimes were committed by people with well above average intelligence. True, they could be sociopathic and psychotic, but many were not and enjoyed committing sex crimes because it was an act of control and an anti-women bias. This can go back to minset and personality. Rape is rarely associated with just sex; it's considered an act of control, dominance, depravity asnd humiliation of a woman through the non-consenting sex. But sex is still the means.

A lot of these studies are flawed because it may not be an accurate representation of subjects for study. There could be bias on behalf of the researchers, like during racial studies that wrongfully showed African-Americans being inferior to whites. There were many misrepresentations of blacks because society was very segregated, coupled with terrible stereotypes of blacks. The study saying students are less sexually active if they have a higher IQ has to be dissected backwards and forwards. More than likely it is very discriminatory in favor of what is perceived as higher-IQ individuals, per se. The demographic parameters for the group is flawed and the such.

Even the IQ tests themselves may be flawed to the subject-groups taking them, not taking into consideration learning disabilities and the such that even the great Einstein had. Albert Einstein was one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century, coming up with scientific theories that are still at the core of modern scientific thought and processes. He had a very sexual side to himself, exposing himself naked to prospective women he wanted to have sex with. All of this while married. Even the whole concept of IQ tests are flawed in the first place and may not even be a fair evaluation of IQ.

The whole study is just part of an elitist type of thinking that started with the racial and eugenci studies that led to so much misery and suffering in the 20th century. Things like racial genocide and forced sterilizations came as the result of these studies. Studies like this don't just represent the student population-they are aimed at the population at large. This time we are more enlightened and more historically informed to the tragedies of the past...with an eye towards preventing future ones.

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