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A postscript on the media My paper on the crime-genius connection, which reports the age profile of scientific productivity and the desistance effect of marriage on science, was published in the August 2003 issue of the Journal of Research in Personality. As soon as the issue was published, it was picked up by the media, first by The New Scientist and Nature Science Update, and then it spread like wildfire. Eventually, it was featured in newspapers on every single continent, except for Antarctica. As often happens in reporting on scientific studies (mine or otherwise), the media got it completely wrong. Here is a sample of the headlines: A researcher says marriage ruins a beautiful mind (Boston Globe) Marriage and children kill creativity in men (ABC news online, Australia) Scientists and crooks, be single (The Telegraph,... [read full story]
