Growing up, I was led to believe that smart people are unattractive, and I always held this belief in the back of my mind until I decided to investigate some scientific journals. I thought I was an anomaly or that I just wasn't smart enough to be ugly, but it turns out that smarter people really are more attractive.
So why was there ever a prevailing belief about ugly smart people? What might be the exact pathway between intelligence and attractiveness? And most importantly, why can't I get a gf? __________
Most smart people are ugly because most people just in general are ugly.
Stupid people are even more ugly than smart people though because you have to be pretty stupid to let yourself get obese
Grayson Foster
>So why was there ever a prevailing belief about ugly smart people? What might be the exact pathway between intelligence and attractiveness? And most importantly, why can't I get a gf?
I was reading a study, about gender disparities in science, not very long ago. And it found that women who are smart tend to have both high mathematical aptitude but also high social intelligence whereas a lot of men who are smart tend to only have mathematical aptitude.
So then one explanation for the lack of women in STEM is that they simply have more options. So they decide to go into fields were both smarts and social tact are required.
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A similar explanation can be used here. The smart Chads have more options. They can go into politics or become high level managers in big corporate entities. We know that looks are very important when it comes to influencing the lesser monkeys amongst us. Only the ugly smart people decide to go into STEM exclusively.
Then of course we think of scientists as THE smart people so we think that smart people are ugly.
You can add this one to the pile. Sort of related, it showed a link between perceived IQ and actual IQ in men but not women.
Ryan Morgan
>journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0081237 >Faces that are perceived as highly intelligent are rather prolonged with a broader distance between the eyes, a larger nose, a slight upturn to the corners of the mouth, and a sharper, pointing, less rounded chin
Made me think of Rose with her pointy chin and impressively long snozz. She's probably lurked here before with her physics education and that slight snobbishness shared by everyone on Veeky Forums. About where would her IQ be?
Hudson Stewart
General normal people(want high status and money) on STEM and programmer after first opportunity goes mananger or owner business, simple becomes millonary begins research is magnitud order way hard than owner business,gets on politics or begin upper mananger.
Another point is stem people give low importance to look, people increment a lot attractive if are fit and well dress.
Daniel Price
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Easton Bennett
You can't objectively define 'attractiveness' or 'intelligence'. End thread.
Jordan Lewis
You grew up on memes and envy Life is not a roleplaying game where things are balanced, beautiful people are usually smarter and richer than dumb people and lead more fulfilling lives
