Comments on: Why beautiful people are more intelligent

By: Tanja Guven

Tanja Guven — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 09:39:51 +0000

Warren Buffett was handsome, once upon a time. He looks old now, but he’s had his day.

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 31 May 2011 05:29:42 +0000

Actually the first 2 of the 4 “assumptions” are nothing more than just that. The second 2 say that the traits in question are “heritable”, meaning, “able to be inherited”. “Able to be inherited” is vastly removed from “are predictably and consistently inherited”. Ergo, the “conclusion” based on those assumptions is a complete assumption. That is not to mention that if everyone thought the same thing was beautiful, people with those traits would have much more opportunity to reproduce more than others who didn’t look like them, and they’d vastly outnumber the others. Darwin demands it! Those traits considered beautiful are a cultural construct, and vary from culture to culture.

By: Chalse

Chalse — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 02:36:45 +0000

That actually depends on your upbringing because I don’t care how beautifully you happen to be. If you don’t work for it and play your cards right, then you will never succeed, even if your I.Q. exceeds that of even Einstein.

Sometimes when you are ugly then you see things clearly and work harder because you have sense.

Just tell me this: have you ever seen a drop-dead gorgeous scientist or doctor or lawyer? They’re not that common.

Being beautiful is sometimes a burden because when you are too beautiful you get sucked into things bigger than yourself.

By: Christof Coetzee

Christof Coetzee — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 21:10:30 +0000

I think you must all then be UGLY people because your reasoning on this topic is really somewhat lame.

First of all, define what is a beautiful person and secondly define what is intelligent.

1. What we as humans perceive to be beautiful is just a phenomenon call the 1.618 or Golden ratio, it just our brains that are programmed to see someone with a certain facial or body composition as “more” attractive than someone else.
The attractive and ugly person both has the some genes, just the “spread” an implementation of the genes are different – i.e. some races find fat woman very attractive, but in the western societies its seen as “ugly”.

I dont really want to make this comparison, but lets take 100 of the best looking people in the world i.e. super models, penthouse pet of the year etc. Then we take 100 top scientist of the world – I bet you the majority of “ugly” people as you call them will be the scientist.
There might be geniuses under the beautiful people, but they never discovered this because they were too hung up on their physical appearance, and then the question remains why did they never develop a natural passion for science…

anyway, looks and brains are not related at all.

I feel somewhat dirty now.

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