Intelligent men ‘have more children’, new study finds

In popular culture at least, women tend to opt for a smouldering, physical type – but in reality, geeky brainboxes seem to have more success in starting families.

Research from Sweden suggests that intelligent men tend to have more children, based on IQ scores of men born between 1951 and 1967.

The researchers analysed scores taken when men were conscripted into the army, covering more than 779,000 men.

The researchers then analysed how many children the men went on to have.

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The researchers say in research published this week, ‘We find a positive relationship between intelligence scores and fertility, and this pattern is consistent across the cohorts we study. The relationship is most pronounced for the transition to a first child, and men with the lowest categories of IQ scores have the fewest children.

‘In our models where we compare brothers to one another, we find that, relative to men with IQ 100, the group with the lowest category of cognitive ability have 0.56 fewer children, and men with the highest category have 0.09 more children.’