作者DarkHolbach (Champagne Supernova)
看板Gossiping
標題Re: [問卦] 脆:女性35-39生 小孩更聰明
時間Wed May 20 18:09:09 2026
※ 引述 《hondata (貼布R)》 之銘言:
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: 剛剛滑到有人說
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: 「研究發現
: 女性在35-39歲之間生育
: 孩子會更聰明」
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: 台女表示因為情緒 經濟都更穩定
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: 該怎麼反駁
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: 好像都不一定吧
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: 狄不是38生嗎?
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: https://i.mopix.cc/Ah6HCs.jpg
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: 阿對了 這是2017 英國研究
我真的去把那篇文章找出來看了,只能說脆上真的是……很多人很愛用一些奇怪的方式去解
讀學術論文,但解讀出來的意思完全不是文章想表達的。
我文章連結貼在這,有興趣可以看,這篇文章也可以下載:
https://bit.ly/3PUGNCR
這篇文章標題叫做:
The reversing association between advanced maternal age and child cognitive abil
ity:evidence from three UK birth cohorts
翻譯就是:高齡產婦與兒童認知能力之間關係的逆轉:來自英國三個出生世代的證據。
那這篇文章主要在講什麼呢?我直接貼Introduction的翻譯:
Introduction
[原文] Since the 1980s there has been a marked increase in the mean age at fir
st birth across industrialised countries. The consequences of this demographic t
rend for the well-being of children are poorly understood.
自 1980 年代以來,工業化國家的平均初育年齡顯著上升。這種人口結構趨勢對兒童福祉
所帶來的後果,目前人們仍知之甚少。
[原文] Whereas there is a wealth of evidence showing a negative association be
tween advanced maternal age, defined here as giving birth at ages 35 and above,
and child health around the time of birth, research on child well-being beyond i
nfancy is less consistent.
儘管已有大量證據顯示,高齡產婦(在此定義為在 35 歲及以上生育)與孩子出生前後的
健康狀況呈負相關,但關於嬰兒期以後的兒童福祉研究,其結果卻較不一致。
[原文] In particular, evidence on the association between maternal age and chi
ldren’s cognitive ability is mixed. Some studies, before adjustment for parenta
l characteristics, have documented a positive association between advanced mater
nal age and children’s cognitive ability, whereas others found a negative assoc
iation.
特別是關於母親生育年齡與兒童認知能力之間關係的證據非常混雜。有些研究在調整父母特
徵之前,記錄到了高齡產婦與兒童認知能力之間存在正相關;然而,其他研究則發現了負相
關。
[原文] Cognitive ability in childhood is an important predictor of important o
utcomes measured later in life, such as educational attainment, occupation and h
ealth. Thus, it is essential to gain a better understanding of how children’s c
ognitive ability is associated with advanced maternal age.
童年時期的認知能力,是預測其未來人生中重要發展結果(例如教育程度、職業和健康狀
況)的重要指標。因此,更深入地了解兒童的認知能力與高齡產婦之間的關聯性至關重要。
[原文] The mixed picture on maternal age and cognitive ability may be partiall
y attributed to the fact that existing studies have analysed the association in
different time periods. We hypothesise that the period considered could represen
t an important source of variation across studies, since the characteristics of
older mothers have changed markedly over time.
母親生育年齡與認知能力關係之研究所呈現出的混雜現象,部分原因可能歸咎於現有的研究
是在不同的歷史時期中分析此關聯性。我們假設,研究中所探討的時期可能是導致各研究之
間出現差異的重要根源,因為高齡產婦的特徵隨着時間推移發生了顯著的變化。
[原文] In the past, families in which children were born to older mothers tend
ed to have larger numbers of children and were poorer than the average; whereas
today these families tend to have smaller numbers of children and are socioecono
mically more advantaged than the average, often because parents invest in educat
ion and become established in professional occupation before having children. Co
nsequently, the association between advanced maternal age and children’s cognit
ive ability might have changed over time.
在過去,由高齡產婦所生育子女的家庭,往往孩子數量較多,且比平均家庭更為貧困;相反
地,如今這類家庭的孩子數量往往較少,且在社會經濟地位上比平均家庭更具優勢,這通常
是因為父母在生育前投入了教育,並在專業職業中立足。因此,高齡產婦與兒童認知能力之
間的關聯性可能會隨着時間而改變。
[原文] To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to investigate th
e question of whether the association between advanced maternal age and children
’s cognitive ability has changed over time within the same context. To analyse
this question, we used data from three large and representative UK birth cohort
studies from 1958, 1970 and 2000–02.
就我們所知,這是第一篇在相同的國家背景下,探討高齡產婦與兒童認知能力之間的關聯
性是否隨時間發生變化的研究。為了分析這個問題,我們使用了來自 1958 年、1970 年和
2000-02 年的三個英國大型且具代表性的出生世代研究數據。
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字太多不想看?沒關係,我白話翻譯一下就是:研究
高齡產婦對兒童未來認知能力發展的影
響。
這篇文章主要就是在講,過去高齡產婦孩子認知能力得分是比較低的,為什麼呢?因為在過
去在高齡還在生孩子的產婦,大部分往往都是生好幾胎的,孩子比較多,而且比較窮。
但現在的高齡產婦就不一樣了,生的胎次比較少,比較能集中精力照顧,而且現代高齡產婦
經濟狀況也比較好,所以現代高齡產婦反而「逆轉」了過去高齡產婦孩子認知能力較差的情
況。
但這是不是代表高齡生孩子,孩子就比較聰明呢?從文章來看絕對不是。
實際上後面的Discussion就給出答案了:
The unadjusted results showed a marked secular trend in the association between
advanced maternal age and children’s cognitive ability. The association between
advanced maternal age and children’s cognitive ability went from negative in t
he 1958 and 1970 cohorts to positive in the 2001 cohort.
未經調整的結果顯示,高齡產婦與兒童認知能力之間的關聯性存在著顯著的時代趨勢。高
齡產婦與兒童認知能力的關係,從 1958 年和 1970 年世代的負相關,轉變為 2001 年世代
的正相關。
The negative association in the earlier cohorts appears to be associated with
the fact that the children born to older mothers in these cohorts were more like
ly to have been high parity births than their counterparts in the 2001 cohort. H
igh birth order can be associated with lower cognitive ability for three complem
entary reasons.
早期世代中的負相關,似乎與以下事實有關:在這些世代中,高齡產婦所生的孩子比 200
1 年世代的同齡孩子更有可能是高胎次(即出生順序靠後)的嬰兒。高出生順序可能與較低
的認知能力相關,原因有三個互補之處。
[原文] First, first-born children have better cognitive outcomes than later-bo
rn children, potentially because they have greater access to parental resources.
Second, the advantage of being first (or second) born was stronger in the 1958
and 1970 cohorts than in the 2001 cohort. Third, previous research documents a n
egative relationship between sibship size and children’s cognitive ability sinc
e larger families tend to be poorer, a finding which is supported in our data (A
ppendix Table 2, available as Supplementary data at IJE online).
第一,第一胎的孩子比後生的孩子擁有更好的認知表現,這潛在是因為他們能獲得更多的
父母資源。第二,身為第一胎(或第二胎)的優勢,在 1958 年和 1970 年的世代中比在 2
001 年的世代中更為強烈。第三,過去的研究記錄了兄弟姊妹數量(家庭規模)與兒童認知
能力之間的負面關係,因為規模較大的家庭往往較為貧困,這一發現也得到了我們數據的支
持(附表 2,可於 IJE 線上系統取得補充數據)。
[原文] The positive association between advanced maternal age and children’s
cognitive ability found in the 2001 cohort appears to be largely explained by th
e selected and advantaged profiles of the older mothers in this cohort. In the f
ully adjusted model, as shown in the pooled results, the cohort differences were
eliminated.
在 2001 年世代中所發現的高齡產婦與兒童認知能力之間的顯著正相關,似乎很大程度上
可以由該世代中高齡母親所具備的特定且優渥之背景特徵來解釋。在完全調整的模型中(如
彙整結果所示),世代之間的差異便消失了。
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太長不想看?沒關係,Discussion的結論簡單來說就是:
現代高齡產婦孩子認知能力高是因為低胎次(生的孩子少,常常還是頭胎,能更多照顧),
還有高齡產婦的經濟能力,扣除掉這些條件,高齡產婦對於孩子認知能力的正影響就蕩然無
存。
所以可以這麼說,這篇文章並不支持“高齡生孩子對孩子更好”的論點,高齡產婦孩子的優
勢是因為經濟優渥和生產胎次較少造成的。
不要去看脆上很多人對論文的解讀,他們的解讀跟論文想講的東西往往不是一回事。==
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騙人不會去找論文看。
※ 編輯: DarkHolbach (172.216.10.14 日本), 05/20/2026 18:13:55
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