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• 1. wtf  |  September 4, 2006 at 10:59 pm

  Einstein is handsome if thats the case. Intelligent people are usually people who are hadicap in one area or the other. Mentally, physically, a handicap lifestyle, etc Einstein brain had one part which we all have but he doesn’t or almost non existent. Thus giving him more power to other part of his brain. Some people spend more time in something than people who lead a normal life thus making them work their brain more and more intelligent, example, scientist. A blind person i heard of was capable of using sound to see his surrounding. Thats achieved becuz of his eye doesn’t work anymore and he was trained to sense better. Look doesn’t contribute (and I believe not inherited becuz i see the opposite so many times) and I think your theory is totally untrue.

• 2. Zigurana  |  September 7, 2006 at 6:54 am

  Well,
  1-The correlation might be there, but does not necessarilly need to be a causality.
  2-To be intelligent is an ill-defined expression, it can be the result of mere IQ, social capabilities (SQ?), mere luck etc. It really is nothing more then a narrow definition of succes.
  2a- Succes IS herited, of course, but that is a much much broader sense of succes. Lets call it Darwinian Succes or better, fitness!

  Which brings us to:
  3-Beauty, is just another ill defined word actually describing attractiveness.
  4-Attractiveness is the result of a myriad of influences (including IQ :-) ).
  5-But basically, attractiveness is another form of succes, fitness.

  So what does this tell us? A relationship with strength 0.6 between beauty and intelligence. Seems to me that the influence of “beauty” and “intelligence” in overall fitness are somehow in a ratio of 0.6:1 (hmm need to reread my maths).

  Concluding: Fitness is the result of load and loads of parameters, including looks and wits.
  Nice research though!

• 3. anon  |  September 13, 2006 at 12:01 pm

  Einstein WAS handsome. Look at his younger pictures. Don’t hate b/c you’re smart but ugly.

• 4. anon2  |  September 22, 2006 at 12:43 am

  Damn it! Why did I have to be one of the ugly, dumb ones?

• 5. audrey  |  September 22, 2006 at 8:59 pm

  funny, anon2 :)

• 6. andreasskog  |  September 25, 2006 at 3:02 am

  Fine!

• 7. brian  |  September 28, 2006 at 2:01 am

  This stuff is pretty messed up.

  Intelligence _doesn’t_ correspond to high societal status. In fact, high intelligence practically precludes high societal status, unless the person’s area of interest is politics or business.

  Secondly, intelligent people are less likely to choose a mate based on appearance.

  Thirdly, intelligent, well-educated, wealthy people have fewer children than do the uneducated poor.

  Fourthly, good-looking people are a dime a dozen and intelligent people are hard to find.

• 8. Jake  |  September 28, 2006 at 2:41 am

  I think the theory is only partly true. NO? Turn on a pornchannel and see the people incredibly beautyful, both male and female - so smart people choose such a way of making living? What about hollywood? They are all beatyful there… with or without cosmetics? How about their relationships, they are non existen…
  So also in this theory, incredibly sexy women would only date nerdly PC users and scientists - assuming they are not rich.
  The smart people I have met mostly have some kind of complexions, they feel incomplite and sadly or not this feeling pushes them to extremes - higher education, doctor degrees, gene technology etc.

• 9. fred  |  September 28, 2006 at 3:31 am

  premises are false.
  QED? ha!
  If intellegence was genetic, we’d be extinct already (stupid people breed more before their premature death– and are more likely to kill some smart people…)
  Looks are not genetic, sometimes the looks don’t come out in the kids.. even then, opinion varies on that topic.

• 10. Stephan Wehner  |  September 28, 2006 at 8:19 am

  I find it interesting to note that both “beautiful” and “intelligent” are difficult to define. In fact, a statement like “beautiful people are more intelligent” reads pretty silly, when you remind yourself that there are different kinds of beautiful and also different kinds of intelligent.

  Compare with more objectively verifiable statements “Darkness of hair is related to height”.

  But the “proof” says the “environment” is doing the selecting. Therefore the “environment” is also defining what is beautiful and intelligent.

  So that makes sense.

• 11. tecmorose  |  September 28, 2006 at 10:39 am

  It sounds like a nice idea, but somehow i don’t think it really pans out. The flaw may be, there are a lot of intelligent people who for some reason choose not to use their intelligence, they are slackers, or drunkards, etc., and they never end up propogating the species, whereas the non-intelligent, less beautiful people are always getting it on ’til 6 in the mornin’ if you catch my drfit. Check out my blog at, http://underdogs.wordpress.com , not sure whether or not you’ll find intelligence or beauty there.

  Ryan

• 12. Victor  |  September 28, 2006 at 12:25 pm

  Well, the problem is that people are shallow and pretty people tend to screw other pretty people…both of whom could be stupid resulting in a very pretty moron - and we all know more of these than the smart hottie.

  Women marry money, not brains. And, trust me, I know a lot more rich guys who got their money by being opportunistic assholes as opposed to rich guys who got rich by being smart.

  All in all, this is entire premise is flawed.

• 13. Richard  |  September 28, 2006 at 3:47 pm

  Doesn’t this whole thing seem a little sexist?

• 14. Miri  |  September 28, 2006 at 4:50 pm

  In the Jewish society, the rich heiresses were traditionnally led to marry intelligent men, so the intelligent men could study and improve their knowledge and not worry about the incomes in the family. Hence, the Jews were “more intelligent”, at least the society improved its chances to breed intelligent children.
  It was a social rule, and it’s hard to measure if it worked or not, but the impressive number of Jewish Nobel prizes and Jewish renowned people can testify there was something into it. But I agree there is more than one type of intelligence.
  While you can try to measure intelligence with IQ tests or by testifying of the accomplishments of given people, there is no objective way to measure beauty. All is in the eye of the beholder.
  You have an interesting thesis but the premises do not hold.

• 15. thomasvr1  |  September 28, 2006 at 5:24 pm

  Obviously the controversy in the assumption initiated by this blog post has done its job in attracting responses. Any person in their right mind knows that intelligence and beauty are on two different planes. A more interesting comparison would be peanut butter and jelly.

• 16. Ascentia  |  September 29, 2006 at 2:42 am

  Oh hell, Henry Kissinger didn’t get dates with all those beautiful women because of his looks! Or wait, did he? Maybe it was physical attributes, but I can’t personally see sitting on his nose.

• 17. Lee McEwan  |  October 3, 2006 at 4:40 am

  Great find. I love academic review articles like this one. They represent the start of a rich seam of discovery for the reader. I would hope that the fact that this article is so contentious will just spur more people on to seek out the references and check the facts themselves. I think the conceit of using a logical construct in this way to make a grand theory is fantastic. The bold assertions made in the article will hopefully trigger a good debate in the academic literature that follows.

• 18. transformedia  |  October 4, 2006 at 1:14 am

  Flawed this premise may be, yet it rings quite true for those of us who are stupid and/or ugly. The major difficulty with it is that we never see ourselves as others see us, and that being so, all the other factors go out the window.
  I know some dolts who feel that their opinions and pronouncements are cogent, valid and useful to others, when more often than not, they are bullshit, constructed so that he speakers can hear the sound of their own voices.
  I know some truly attractive and sexy women who couldn’t recognize those traits in themselves if they were pointed out to them by a jury. Many men are emasculated and terrorized by the overtly attractive of the opposite sex because society has convinced them that the superficial traits are the only viable currencies that would bring a beauty to their side - the women are just as brainwashed. A hottie is not going to waste any time finding out if the geek is interesting, she wants a reflection of her own surface beauty to make her feel like that porn goddess she is supposed to feel like.

• 19. Pretty Girl  |  November 3, 2006 at 11:35 pm

  Beauty can in fact be measured. There was a study done with babies as well as with adults. The more symetrical the face the better score it got. Even babies preferred faces of “beautiful” people. This study then determined what was the most beautiful combination of facial features, i.e. ratio of distance from corner of eye to bridge of nose… those sorts of things.

  Another thing that might allow beautiful people to appear more intelligent is through educational or occupational sucess. It has been proven that a “beautiful” person is more likely to get the promotion or the job, apartment… etc. etc. Beauty in our culture is rewarded sometimes above intelligence or talent.

  There could be minor relationships that would account for the signifigance, but I think having brains and beauty is more about the luck of the draw.

• 20. Sir Nicholas  |  November 27, 2006 at 1:49 pm

  What a load of crap. Ive seen many intelligent people who are very ugly. In fact ive seen more ugly smart people then good looking intelligent people.

• 21. Abril  |  December 6, 2006 at 9:18 am

  “statistically significant “?? Who did the study?? Where? When? you cannot generalize the results.. please, publish the complete investigation

• 22. Clas  |  December 8, 2006 at 9:12 pm

  I am very intelligent, and nerdy as well. I am a computer engineer. I am a superior being.

• 23. transformedia  |  December 12, 2006 at 8:42 am

  In the minds of those who have been gifted with enough acceptable evidence to convince them that they are superior, there is a factor of confidence and security that is quite venerable. Not all people have been gifted thusly, obviously, therefore ones’ life-long task is, among many others, to parent oneself and sustain oneself through recognizing and accepting the reflections of ones’ abilities and successes. The world and life as it occurs is often harsh and ugly, so ones’ very survival can often be founded on the talent to see “what is” and press on. There aren’t many weak old people.

• 24. sadiztik  |  December 26, 2006 at 11:19 pm

  @abril

  The answer to your questions can be found right at the bottom of the blog entry! Do I infer that you are not one of the beautiful people?

  @wtf

  Many of the intelligent people that most people are familiar with are handsome or beautiful. The problem is that most of the portraits that people are most familiar with were taken when the subjects were already old. If you take the time to find pictures of these intelligent people you would be surprised to discover that they are indeed beautiful.

  In fact, ugly and intelligent people are so uncommon that any such combination in any real person is readily noted.

• 25. aprilgonzaga  |  December 27, 2006 at 10:06 am

  hmmm…. i didn’t know there was a correlation between intelligence and good looks… maybe it takes a stroke of goodluck to have inherited the “good genes” from your parents hehe…

• 26. Snoopsmsc  |  December 27, 2006 at 1:54 pm

  Has no one ever realized that beautiful people are given things that others aren’t. I worked at a grocery store for 6 years, and I can tell you from experience that it is a natural tendancy to do things for especially attractive people that you wouldn’t do for most people (in my case, cashing checks, or returning items that don’t fit within our policies). I find it hard to beleive that I am the only person with this tendancy. Sex sells for a reason, while it may not be the only reason for a certain person getting something, it is definetly a contributing factor.

• 27. Anonymous.Theories  |  December 27, 2006 at 2:45 pm

  How can people say that intelligence and beauty is subjective??
  IQ tests, GMAT, LSAT, MCAT, SAT are all quite effective in determining relative intelligence and ability.

  And as Pretty Girl said, studies show that babies prefer symmetrical faces. And the faces that these babies prefer are also faces that adults find attractive.

  I have long suspected this correlation myself. My personal belief is that intelligence and beauty is proportional to how evolved (due to their environment) a group of people are. The more difficult an environment is, the more selective people are when mating, and also the more intelligence you need to survive this environment.

• 28. customer583  |  March 12, 2007 at 6:44 pm

  anyone who has ever been to college or has been around a group a college students (specifically the fraternity/sorority type) knows that this is complete bullshit.

• 29. mike  |  March 19, 2007 at 4:37 pm

  I had been to college and my less attractive instructor kept on saying negative things to a group of people that are more attractive than him , incidentally I am a member of the group of people he kept on negatively criticizing and so to is his wife.
  unconsciously he loves us people and I think he is a bit crazy with attractive people.

• 30. Rebecca Aguilar  |  June 6, 2007 at 7:42 am

  What isn’t considered in the relationship between beauty and intelligence is that these are traits that WE CAN WORK ON AND IMPROVE.

  Heredity? How about makeup and a good education? What roles do they play in the relationship between brains and looks?

• 31. k  |  June 8, 2007 at 5:08 am

  Well… Orince Charles is NOT exactly beautiful neither that intelligent though he is the son of the queen of england!? he maried the pretty Diana and had 2 sons, one handsome and the other NOT handsome so…

• 32. hatjhie  |  July 6, 2007 at 2:56 am

  Hm….., it’s not related I think, just gene work

• 33. Rich  |  August 23, 2007 at 12:22 am

  What is beatiful and what is intelligent? All people have different tastes for different types of dimeanors, personality, morally based realizations and so on…. To shrink down the standards to one ridiculous one is dehumanizing. So many actualizations that we humans percieve can cannot be expressed with words. In my opinion, the people that can express deep concepts verbally, with mutual understanding is where genius lies.

• 34. Tushar  |  August 23, 2007 at 10:35 am

  Hi my opinion on this topic is that most of the beauty full are inteligent. There may be any other reason for this i e brain is not coneted with looks . Among my friend circle most of Beautys are inteligent.

• 35. Chuck  |  February 18, 2008 at 7:29 am

  This argument is garbage. You’re assuming that the intelligence of the women and the physical appearance of the man have no impact on the offspring.

• 36. nicky  |  February 19, 2008 at 12:25 am

  ya i disagree. although from what i have observed, intelligent people are beautiful and not necessarily vice versa. thats because some one who is intelligent (socially, academically) is more likely to be happier and confident and have a beautiful approach to life which makes them appear beautiful..

• 37. whatever  |  March 2, 2008 at 11:53 pm

  I have two words for you. “PARIS HILTON” LOL!

• 38. iriayo  |  April 2, 2008 at 5:57 am

  beauty is never associated with intelligence and cannot be equated.some ugly people are more intelligent than the most beautiful people in the world

• 39. Naomi  |  May 2, 2008 at 4:59 pm

  To Freds comment: The human race actually is becoming less intelligent and more weak. Before technology, industry and goverment welfare programs the strong/ healthy (often=beauty standards) and intelligent were the only ones to survive. Before birth control the birth rate was about the same for all people but the weak and stupid had a higher mortality rate. (Darwin) But today the more intelligent people know to control how many children they have and the stupid people just keep breeding and stay alive despite their inferiority. We keep them alive. So as a human race many scientists have said we are literally becoming less intelligent and less healthy. You should watch idiocracy. Only a comedy but very truthful.

• 40. Oscar Lopez  |  May 3, 2008 at 1:08 am

  I read the attached e-book and there is no evidence that supports the first 2 statements. Moreover, even if we accept all 4 statements as unarguable truths, this still does not make any sense. Here’s why:

  The expression “are more lilkely” used in the assumptions does not make absolute statements. Therefore, even if we considere the 4 assumptions as true, one can still say that:

  1. Unintelligent people can also attain a higher status
  2. Unintelligent higer-status men can also attain atractive women
  3. Unintelligent and low-status guys can also attain atractive women with “beauty” genes.

  My 3 statements do not contradict the first 4 but impale this deceiving hypothesis.

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