Attractive people are more likely to be intelligent. Obesity and other "unattractive" traits have negative impact on cognitive functions and IQ. And being smart is attractive trait on its own!
I’m not so sure about that correlation. Some of the smartest folks I’ve ever met have been overweight. I’ve also known plenty of attractive people who were pretty dumb when you got to know them. I’d bet on a random distribution of intelligence across the spectrum.
That's why professors, doctors, and lawyers are so hot.
There's literally a term "law school hot" which means definitely not hot, but hot for a lawyer.
> used to describe women who, in any other scenario would be considered hunchbacked, slovenly, heinous wildebeasts. But, because of their captive audience (law school men) and their alternatives (other trolls, buffalos, and wildebeasts) they somehow garner attraction.
Not so sure about intelligence, but perhaps fitness to some extent. Unattractive traits are usually red flags for other problems that don't necessarily have anything to do with IQ.
> And being smart is attractive trait on its own!
Being competent would probably be more accurate. I assume you mean intelligence when you use the word smart here, in which case I would say that most people consider intelligence to be boring. But no one likes an idiot. One can be competent, or perhaps smart (which is really more about decision making than processing capability), without being abundant in intelligence.
christophilus|3 years ago
metadat|3 years ago
There is no hard and fast rule, but on average the pretty ones tend to be more intelligent.
pessimizer|3 years ago
There's literally a term "law school hot" which means definitely not hot, but hot for a lawyer.
> used to describe women who, in any other scenario would be considered hunchbacked, slovenly, heinous wildebeasts. But, because of their captive audience (law school men) and their alternatives (other trolls, buffalos, and wildebeasts) they somehow garner attraction.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=law%20school...
bhk|3 years ago
ravenstine|3 years ago
> And being smart is attractive trait on its own!
Being competent would probably be more accurate. I assume you mean intelligence when you use the word smart here, in which case I would say that most people consider intelligence to be boring. But no one likes an idiot. One can be competent, or perhaps smart (which is really more about decision making than processing capability), without being abundant in intelligence.
jotm|3 years ago