Evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa has never been far from controversy. When he’s not having his blog cancelled for saying black women are unattractive, he’s arguing that some nations just aren’t smart enough to be monogamous.
Given which, his latest work, saying that gay people are smarter on average, is probably his most politically correct paper in years, strange as that may sound.
In three large population surveys (USA’s AddHealth and GSS, UK’s NCDS), Kanazawa found a small positive correlation between estimated IQ and self-reported homosexual behaviour or identity.
Now I’m not sure what to make of this. He controlled for confounds such as race, religion and political orientation (and those correlations are interesting in themselves), but you can never measure and correct for everything in a study like this.meangays1
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Kanazawa interprets all this in terms of the Savanna hypothesis, essentially the idea that intelligence allows us to transcend our ...
