Comments on: Why beautiful people are more intelligent

By: Johnny12

Johnny12 — Sat, 22 May 2010 15:59:44 +0000

I didn’t notice this correlation until I began working in new York and Washington dc. High paying front office and executive positions are generally filled by attractive people from top universities. The more menial jobs are filled by unattractive people from community colleges and state universities.

The attractive ivy league grads had successful fathers and attractive mothers. They also tended to be from more metropolitan parts of the country. There are definitely one off exceptions, but for the most part, the most attractive people in a population are way more attractive than the dumbest. This theory is easily proven by comparing residents on park avenue versus residents of the Bronx or a wall street investment bank versus employees at sanitation facility. The residents in my upper middle class neighborhood are more attractive than the residents of the lower class neighborhood where my office is. Clearly, natural assertive mate selection will place successful men with attractive women. This process has been happening for generations based on my experience working with the elites in the finance and mass media industries.

By: James

James — Sat, 08 May 2010 20:17:48 +0000

Unlike physically ugly people, beautiful people tend to be smarter because usually they’re less concerned about the way that they look. Stress can cause a restraint in your process of thinking and can stop the development of the mind. Stress can also make you less beautiful: Produce lots of wrinkles, zits, and make you appear sad. Beautiful people tend to have less stress than the amount of stress ugly people have, therefore, making them more intellectually developed

By: Beautiful and smart

Beautiful and smart — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:51:31 +0000

I’ve had beautiful/handsome male friends NONE of which have been stupid, only the beautiful women have been stupid or not so smart. I’ve had a number of normal looking friends who were smart, but NO ugly guy has been really smart, and the ugly chicks I’ve never paid attention to. Nerdgirls tend to look nerdy, not necessarily ugly.

By: Ni Ke

Ni Ke — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 12:53:08 +0000

fk you whoever came up with this theorem

By: Alf

Alf — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:46:13 +0000

I think you mean “Why intelligent people are more beautiful.” Check your causality.

By: Cyp

Cyp — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:10:11 +0000

Let me start by saying that you’re argument is a load of crap. Intelligence and looks are two separed things, genetacally and otherwise. But let’s break this into pieces.

premis one: inteligent people get more higher positions: totally false. in the real world people who have self confident or a relation with a boss get to a higher position.

premiss two: True, although this is just one of the factors they took in account. They actually consider more important the succes among other women and attractiveness which is another word for DNA physicall qualities

Premiss three: inteligence is heritable: totally fals. a person can have a certain potential inteligence from the parents but his or her actions determine their level of inteligence.

Premiss four: fals again: we have two sets of genes for each attribute, and actually genes that are considered ugly are dominant genes. so no, beauty is not inheritable.

Conclusion: you’re argument is stupid

By: lorenzo gomar

lorenzo gomar — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:18:21 +0000

The truth is that if you want to be successful you only dont really need to be smart just aggressive and look smart. If you want to be successful you have to play the game. Unfortunately for us smart people, everyone else is playing spades while we are playing chess. It is true that it is in the eye of the beholder, unfortunately that beholder is pretty stupid. I have personally witness really dumb and lazy people success, just because they fit the average. have you ever tried on a pair of versace pants? if you are not uber skinny you cannot put them on. Same thing with this society, if you are too smart you cannot fit in. And the thing about being pretty, just about everyone can do it, you just have to play the role. You have to have confidence, Wear the right close and hairstyle and your in. Just remember beauty is a fad, there was a time when we looked upon intelligence as something to be admired now its just ad adjective to describe pretty or ugly.

By: victor

victor — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:07:51 +0000

It’s hard to believe that intelligence and beauty meet in the same people.
I think that if you’re a bit prettier people like you and they encourage you to express. If you are smart, this encouragement is enough to make you learn and train and get to the top.
The ugly smart people get isolated and never get to perfect themselves to the point that it shows.
Don’t forget that the pretty&dumb people are more likely to show their “wits” publicly and in a marked manner. And people don’t give attention to the dumb&ugly anyway,

By: JP

JP — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:12:33 +0000

We all need to fill our niche in the world. If you are unattractive or can not perform all that well physically, you will make up for it mentally.
Evolution is also another factor.
In our distant past we did not have the easy life that we have today. We needed to hunt to survive. if you can perform physically, less thought needs to put in to achieve the result. But the intelligent people achieved the desired result using their minds (setting up staps etc.)
The traits have been passed down. More intelligent people are less like machines. Practical biology happens to look attractive.

By: Victor

Victor — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:42:04 +0000

Warren Buffet is considered by many who have met him to be the smartest person on earth, yet that hardly makes him the most handsome guy on the planet ( he may be, of course, at least to his mother;-) ).