Single? Female? You are stupid, study shows

i think that has more to do with the number of women continuing on to post-secondary than in the past.
besides, who comes to conclusions based on only one year's worth of data. that no way to paint an average.

Hahaha - samply... Awesome photo choice. I love it!

Well I disagree. I have 2 degrees, I am smart, and I am not married (maybe I am smart for not being married :)

Correlation not causation, what what! Maybe those people just went to school to get their MRS. OH!

No really I don't think it matters married or not you can still be smart :)

Them down under studies are player-haters.

Destiny's child should make a new album about this.
OH WAIT, Beyonce just got hitched.... damn it.

What a crock of poo-poo.

Hmph! These social scientists should come with me to my high school's ten-year reunion (coming up!) if they would like to evaluate their notes against some real-world data.

Hmm. Interesting. First of all, a degree does not necessarily equate to intelligence (just education) and I have to say--I wonder what women they're surveying! Like Swiyyah said, how many of those women were just going for their MRS?

Then again, I'm single and I like to think I'm relatively smart.

I have two degrees and married and somedays wonder what happened to my commonsense notion to stay single til I was 40years old.

I guess I must be exceptionally smart - I married four times!

Haha! These comments are great!

Samply, kudos on the picture.

I always liked the geeky girls the best!

awesome - the more single women there are in this world , regardless of why , means more single women - that simple . ( i'm a single guy )

there's no bigger turn off than a woman who cannot hold a conversation or can only hold one type of conversation. zzzzzzz.............

Correlation does not equal causation.

Thank goodness smart women are responding here!
Many of my married friends tell me I am pretty smart for still remaining single!
Love all the comments

most people who think that they are funny are usually not funny at all.

that goes for smart folk too.

Maybe this is true in Australia, but I'd have to disagree here in the US.

Even worse than people who think they are funny are people who take themselves seriously and cannot detect an obvious tongue in cheek.

First:
That stupid girl is married to money.

Second:
More power to us, we'll let them 'think' we're stupider.

Third:
Statistics are crap

I just want to know why this was the #5 top story on Current.com.

On the contrary, I was an idiot to get married at an early age!!! Now after being divorced for a few years, I am finally happy. . . and financially successful . . . without a man!

ugh statistics don't mean anything anyway. we've all heard of people surviving terminal diseases, people that have ditched alcohol etc.

Why is education correlated with being smart? Just because a person withstood the "I can force myself to sit in a chair and perform like a monkey because I'm expected to" test means nothing!

I've done time in a trade school, a California State University and community college (in many ways, the best of the bunch and certainly the cheapest), I am not impressed and I don't see it cultivating "intelligence." Worse yet, a person can learn a semester's worth of "learning" in a number of days or weeks by other means. Waste of time? Sometimes it is, and sometimes it isn't.

Marrying has more to do with your home environment than "smarts" - dumb clucks those "statisticians" are.

I'm single. And according to this study I'll be smart till I'm 40!!

Not even going to look at, read,or even think about the story!! I will read most things,but if you put a stupid piece of whatever,whatever,what the,I.... i'm upset current has her just go to tmz what the !!!!! irrrrrr

guys, this is an Australian study, they are so weird that you can't really apply it outside that island!

there is nothing smart in getting married

How can aptitude be measured by one's marital status? The premise seems pretty bias to begin with.

What on earth is going on!!!
do people honestly beleive that just because your not married your dumb. what is this now coming to???
does everyone who is "smart" want to end up on tv screaming at their husbands, or in divource court because they cheated its silly!
you dont have to be smart to marry, everyone is smart in their own way some are better at other things more than others but it doesnt mean that they're not smart!!
in fact it makes you dumb if your willing to waste your life and marry for all the rong reasons. if you love that person and can honestly see yourself with that person in say fifty years then yer i would say go for it. but in my oppinion you have to be one hundred percent sure your doing the right thing.

Why do so many people take personal offense because they don't fit into the model of this study? These social scientists have spent years studying this data, admit that it's only a correlation (not a causation), and besides it's not an American study, but an Australian one, and it was only among women age 30-34. And the marriage rates were still only 61% for 2008 (down from 64% 12 years ago) for educated women. Did many people even read the entire article?

They were simply showing that there has been a higher rate of decline of marriage rates among those women who did not go on to college than among those who did. They weren't trying to prove any thesis or say that education and intelligence are directly related either (that's a completely different study to itself).

There seems to be a common trend among the users of this site to take personal offense when they don't fit into what a study says is a majority statistic

Imagine a world where survey results are not allowed to become news.

They're all about speculation masquerading as fact, and while they might promote debate, there's usually a company with a very pointed agenda behind each one, trying to pimp their own self-interests or gain a few column inches.

If we followed the results of health-centric surveys we'd most likely be playing ping-pong with our diets. I think surveys are a waste of time.

10 out of 9 Surrealists surveyed agree with lwhi.

I think it depends on the woman it doesn't have to do anything with marriage, for a woman who marry may be a ditz and a single woman could be just trying to get her career first before love, or vice versa.

I'm not defending surveys, I agree that they are loaded. Having done research assistantships throughout my life, I know how easy it can be to shape questions in ways that give you the answers you want.

That's the point that I was trying to make. People look too much into statistics, trying to find ways to get offended when there is no reason to be. The title "Single? Female? You are stupid, study shows" is offensive, but it is unfounded. That was not the purpose of said statistics.

This particular study was done by sociologists at a research university. Having a father who is a research sociologist, I know first hand that university studies are done as objectively as possible. I would assume the data is more grounded than a survey done by a company to promote their product.

Plus, as I said previously, they study was simply showing correlation, not causation. The article does not say that there is a correlation, or that single females are less intelligent than married females.

Horse shit.

Most of my friends think my husband and I have the weirdest relationship. We seem to genuinely like each other. I think it takes a smart person, not education to realize that a good, lasting relationship needs to be rooted first in friendship. Too often, infatuation is mistaken for love and the next thing you know, you're asking yourself, who is this person I vowed my lifelong devotion to.

what if i'm smart for staying single?

The headline does not reflect the story. Correlation != causation (that's "does not equal" for you non-nerds). Shame on samply for creating such an offensive and misleading headline.

This is research from Australia, need I say more.

Study or not, marital status has nothing to do with one's level of intelligence. I know plenty of unintelligent, married women, and plenty of intelligent, single women.

I agree that the head line is misleading...the paper's fault for trying to be attention grabbing.

jonbrooks, does the research's Australian origins make it unjustified or invalid, just because it doesn't apply to American women?

being married has nothing to do with being smart or whatever.
some women are stupid for marrying a certain guy but not everybody finds the right one.
it's who you are as a individual.

I get the feeling the social politics are a bit different in Australia