Marriage hurting scientists

Posted on February 6, 2008
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Bad news for scientists who want to excel in their field and at the same time share their lives with wives. A new study from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand is telling us that a scientist’s biggest enemies are age and marriage.

You might have already heard of mathematicians who claim that if they don’t produce a major result by the time they hit 30 years of age or shortly thereafter then they never will. In fact, there is much evidence that the older people get the least likely are to come up with a groundbreaking theory.

The researchers now have also found that marriage has a similar effect to scientific genius. The study shows that once married men are less likely to produce a major scientific result. They say that the cause of this could be that after marriage these men do not find themselves in the situation of having to compete against other in order to rise to the top and gain the affection of females. So, they kind of give up; the result of winning the race, I guess.

Read, Marriage may tame genius.

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2 Responses to “Marriage hurting scientists”

  1. C K on February 7th, 2008 10:07 am

    Read from “Think and Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill that most men become successful only after 40 because they’ve channelled their (sexual) energy into mental pursuits. Not sure whether that applies to scientists as well…

  2. Alpha on February 7th, 2008 1:32 pm

    I haven’t read this book but it all depends on how you define “successful.” If success is money then just about every scientist makes a comfortable living after graduation and by the time they are 40, they are already making 6-figures easily. However, this doesn’t mean that they are coming up with great theories which is what the study is about.

    Cheers!

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