[elt0n]

"In my view, the fact that niceness beats physical beauty is evidence of the existence of God."

Wait, what? Isn't this a highly subjective and religious claim that comes out of nowhere and isn't relevant to the article? Or is that a commonly used expression I am unaware of?

[whamlastxmas]

To me it seemed to be written entirely as a joke. The idea being that this is an example of inherit goodness in the universe that we don't often see since the entire model is based on ever-dwindling entropy. The universe is pessimistic by nature if you think about it.

[georgemcbay]

Yeah that was weird for me too, just seemed random but I guess it was kind of a flat joke?

Also the study referenced didn't look at who women actually choose to date, but rather which of two completely hypothetical guys they would choose to date based off some script, which seems pretty worthless to me. I mean, of course in a completely hypothetical situation people are generally going to make a more noble decision than they are likely to make in a real world situation.

Ask 100 men if they'd rather date a nice, intelligent, average looking woman than a dim hot one and I'd bet most will say they'll go for the nice, smart, average looking one, but if the situation were a real-life choice (naturally presented without any 3rd parties to actively judge their answer directly), I'm guessing the real-world results would skew very different from the hypothetical results.

[choward]

That alone made me stop reading. That's the biggest pile of crap I ever heard. How on earth is that evidence. Does the author even know how to science?