Are smart people more likely to be gay

Gay men are smarter than straight men—so says history has been, hands down, its most popular post since it was published on July 18, It also has a notable time reference to the big Calgary flood. The sixties were a boom-time for psychometric assessment, and in particular Intelligence Quotient IQ research.

Similar lines of research were done on homosexuals. Spencer, published an article in the Canadian Journal of Corrections He looked at sexual offenders in the Toronto Forensic Clinic. These incarcerated individuals were categorized into three groups: exhibitionists, pedophiles and homosexuals.

Reading between the lines, he may have been an early homosexual rights advocate as he mused openly about criminal law being a vehicle for moral condemnation see article image below. Other researchers confirmed the IQ findings. A study of neurotic homosexual and neurotic heterosexual soldiers similarly found evidence of higher intelligence scores and educational achievement amongst the gay soldiers Winterstein-Lambert, E.

However, like many IQ studies there is a potential for cultural bias in the research as well as other sources of error. Some studies showed no difference, and at least one showed reduced intelligence in homosexual men. Many of the articles researched for this website have come from that basement department such as: this one.

We are really saddened by this particular loss. Reblogged this on Queer Landia. I am a gay man, definitely assured of his homosexuality and comfortable. While an article in a professional journal on gays always pricks no pun intended my interest, the statements in and of themselves seem racist.

I question the sample on which the study is based.

Gay men are smarter than straight men – so says history.

Spuriousness abounds in the study and we know much more now about gays than we did then. I mean look at everything we have to contend with growing up and coming out. We have to be in tuned with our environment better, take on both male and female social roles, we have to compete with everyone and their mother, etc… I think where gay men really excel though is our households can out earn the rest.

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