{"id":378,"date":"2007-08-02T12:20:58","date_gmt":"2007-08-02T16:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=378"},"modified":"2007-08-02T12:20:58","modified_gmt":"2007-08-02T16:20:58","slug":"cackle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=378","title":{"rendered":":::cackle:::"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Adams&#8217; <A HREF=\"http:\/\/dilbertblog.typepad.com\/the_dilbert_blog\/2007\/08\/brains-or-inter.html\">blog entry today<\/A> talks about a recent study which &#8220;discovered&#8221; that smart people have less sex than dumb ones.  Then he asks this question:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This leads me to my question of the day. Would you be willing to give up 10 points of IQ for a dramatic and permanent increase in your sex life (with other humans)?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One of his commenters left a response whose first sentence just cracked me the hell up, and I want to make sure it&#8217;s immortalized somewhere:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is like Blowjobs for Algernon. I&#8217;d probably enjoy the extra sex and never notice I was dumber (because I&#8217;d be too dumb to notice), but the 10-points-smarter me wouldn&#8217;t agree to the swap, because he&#8217;s smart enough to know better.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hee hee hee&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Adams&#8217; blog entry today talks about a recent study which &#8220;discovered&#8221; that smart people have less sex than dumb ones. Then he asks this question: This leads me to my question of the day. Would you be willing to give up 10 points of IQ for a dramatic and permanent increase in your sex [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}