[eaevans99]

Take caution. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

> The mother's age had no impact, and daughters seemed to be immune.

When a significant effect is seen in only one of four comparisons (maternal vs paternal, sons vs daughter), then you have to suspect that the effect might be spurious.

[valuearb]

That's interesting, I thought there was a correlation between older mothers and autism, and autism has a correlation to geekiness.

My wife had our youngest daughter at 40 (I was 43), and my daughter was diagnosed as autistic at 3 and a half. After lots of therapy she was able to mainstream at age 8, and made the honor roll this year.

This morning she noticed a year in a book her older sister was reading. She exclaimed "That's the year Isaac Newton was born!". I said "okay" not sure if she could be right, and she then whispered to me, "and it's the year Galileo died". I looked it up, and she was right. So I kind of consider her geeky.