14 julho 2003

CONTAMINANTES
Scientists, like criminals, peak at 30: Study hints that men strive to win women and then sit back.
Male scientists are like criminals, a new study concludes. Their productivity peaks at 30 and then goes rapidly downhill.
Psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa of the London School of Economics and Political Science examined the lives of 280 eminent scientists, including Pierre Curie and Albert Einstein. He found that 65% had published their best paper by the age of 35. What's more, unmarried scientists peaked later in life than those who had tied the knot. Crime, similarly, is a bachelor's game.
Picking locks and publishing papers are ways of catching the female eye, argues Kanazawa.