Is there a link between hip size and IQ?

American psychologist Sterners discovered that outstanding people all have "wide hips", from which he inferred that the size of the hips is directly proportional to the IQ. Of the 276 adults who took an intelligence test, 152 had larger hips. The average score for those with wide hips was 137, 31 points higher than the 106 for those with smaller hips. So are people with bigger buttocks really smarter?

The rumor is this:

You must have heard this saying: "People with big butts are smarter." According to media reports, American psychologist Sterners found through research that the size of the buttocks is proportional to a person's IQ. The bigger the person's buttocks, the higher the intelligence.

He has two reasons:

First , the most ideal hip ratio for women is: height ÷ 2 + 8~9, and the ideal hip ratio for men is: height ÷ 2 + 10. Cleopatra, Napoleon, Joan of Arc, the founding father of the United States, Washington, former US President John F. Kennedy, Aristotle, Alexander the Great and other historical greats are all

Secondly , in his five-year study, he gave 276 adults an intelligence test, of which 152 people with larger buttocks scored an average of 137 points, 31 points higher than the average score of 106 points for those with ordinary buttocks.

In fact, it is like this

According to verification, related reports of this statement first appeared on Chinese Internet websites around October 2001, but no related articles or posts were found on English websites. Moreover, when searching for this paper in the relevant scientific research literature database, no psychologist named Sterners was found, and no relevant literature was found through keyword searches. Therefore, the authenticity of this report needs further verification.

Rational and scientific analysis

As we all know, experiments are always affected by many factors, so in specific experiments, controls must always be made to eliminate interfering factors. This study should also follow the rules of experiment.

The possible relationship between hip size and IQ can be explained from the following aspects:

1. According to Lamarck's "use it or lose it" theory and Darwin's view of biological evolution, the size of the buttocks is directly related to how much it is used. The more it is used, the larger the buttocks will be, and vice versa. IQ is mainly related to thinking. When we think, we usually sit, so the buttocks are used more and the buttocks are larger.

2. Researchers believe that women's plump buttocks and thighs accumulate more fat and contain more long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids, which are important for the neural development of the fetus.

However, there is more than one reason for the formation of big buttocks, which should generally include genetic factors, individual nutritional status, usage time and intensity, as well as age differences, family differences, educational differences, etc. among the surveyed population.

It is worth pointing out that the above-mentioned relationship between IQ and buttocks is only a possible rather than a necessary connection. It is one of the connections between the two, not the only one. In other words: people with big buttocks do not necessarily have high IQs, and vice versa: people with high IQs do not necessarily have big buttocks. Because the factors that determine the size of these two are many and complex. Moreover, the size of the buttocks can only be compared under the same conditions of gender, because we have found that due to physiological reasons, women generally have larger buttocks than men, but this does not mean that their average IQ is higher than that of men.