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Historian Lucy Worsley caused a furore when she remarked last year that she had been‘educated out of the natural reproductive function’.
歷史學家露西·沃斯利去年提到她因為受教育而放棄“自然生殖功能”，引起了不小的轟動。
Now it seems she might have had a point, after a new study has revealed a clear correlation between intelligence and childlessness - with cleverer women more likely to choose not to have a family.
現在看來她可能是有道理的，一項新的研究表明智商和是否有子女之間有著密切聯系——較為聰明的女性大多選擇單身。
The study, which was conducted by Satoshi Kanazawa, a researcher at the London School of Economics, found that a woman's urge to have children decreases by a quarter for every 15 extra IQ points.
這項研究由倫敦政治經濟學院的學者金澤哲指導，該研究表明，智商每高出15分，女性想要孩子的欲望就減少25%。
When Kanazawa, who used data from the UK's National Child Development Study, added controls for economics and education, the results remained the same - the more intelligent the woman, the less likely she was to have children.
金澤哲所使用的數據來自英國全國兒童發展研究中心，他還表示經濟學管制和教育結果是一樣的——女性越聰明，她們就越不想要孩子。
Worsley isn't the UK's only famously clever childless woman, with others including BBC presenter Kate Humble and actress Helen Mirren.
歷史學家沃斯利并不是英國唯一知名的無子女高智商女性，同樣還有BBC主持人凱特·漢博和演員海倫·米倫。
In the USA, Oprah Winfrey, Cameron Diaz and Eva Mendes are among the famous names who have said they'll never become mothers, with Diaz adding:‘I have the life I have because I don’t have children.’
在美國，奧普拉·溫弗瑞，卡梅隆·迪亞茲和伊娃·門德斯都是著名的沒有孩子的女性，迪亞茲說：“我能過我自己想要的生活，是因為我沒有孩子。”
Mendes too has said that she values her lifestyle too much to share it with children.‘I don’t want kids,’ she said.‘I love sleep and I worry about everything.’
門德斯也曾說過她實在是太珍惜自己的生活方式了，不想讓孩子來破壞它。“我不想要孩子，” 她說。“我喜歡睡覺，不想什么事都操心。”
Humble, meanwhile, told the Times that she just ‘doesn’t have a maternal gene’ and resolved not to have children at the age of 14.
漢博曾告訴《時代》周刊，她就是“沒有母性基因”，從4歲時起，就下定決心不要孩子。
‘People are very judgmental,’she added.‘It’s as if I made a selfish decision not to have children, but I never, ever, wanted them.’
“人們很愛品頭論足，”她說。“好像我不要孩子很自私似的，但我絕不，永遠不會要孩子。”
