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The prent study explored whether there were relatnships among genr nonnformy, telligence, and sexual orientatn. A total of 106 heterosexual men, 115 heterosexual women, and 103 gay men pleted measur of mographic variabl, relled childhood genr nonnformy (CGN), and the N …

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ARE GAY PEOPLE SMARTER THAN STRAIGHT PEOPLE?

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Choreographer and dancer Kyle Abraham, one of at least three openly gay 2013 MacArthur fellows.

Of the 24 wners this year, at least three are openly gay, meang gay people are signifintly overreprented among the geni pool. The news has led some to speculate that gay geni outnumber straight on, proportnally, the populatn at large.

QUEER IQ: THE GAY COUPLE'S ADVANTAGE

Are gay people really smarter than straight people?

Last year, Satoshi Kanazawa argued the Journal of Bsocial Science that gay people are typilly born wh more telligence than the average heterosexual. Kanazawa asserts that homosexualy is an evolutnary handip bee prevents reproductn. Some scientists speculate that the same geic factors that e homosexualy one genr also duce hyperfertily the other, a theory lled sexually antagonistic selectn.

A gay man might be at an evolutnary ad end, other words, but his sisters will be blsed wh extreme fecundy, more than makg up the balance. Homosexualy, acrdg to this theory, isn’t some evolutnary fect: It’s a blogil boon.

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