"To Father A Geekier Son, Maybe Wait Until You Are Older" - Bruce Y. Lee
Researchers from King’s College in London and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai used the Twin Early Development Study (TEDS), a sample of 12,468 twins from 6234 British families and calculated a "geek index" for members of this sample when they were 12 years old. The "geek index" is supposed to measure how much of a geek you are. The researchers described a geek as an "intelligent outcast", "labelled because of their expertise and lack of social skills", "socially awkward and overly intellectual" and "prone to obsessive interests." The main finding of the study was that the older the father was when the son was born, the higher the son scored on the geek index at age 12 and the better the son did in school by age 16.
- Magdalena Janecka, MD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Neurology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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