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.
> includes all babies born during the week of March 9, 1958 in Great Britain
> When the children were 7 and again when they were 11, their teachers were asked to describe them physically. For the purpose of the analysis below, the children are defined to be attractive if they were described as attractive at both age 7 and age 11.
> Sixty-two percent of the NCDS respondents are coded as attractive.
It is possible that teacher involuntary describe rich students as attractive and poor students as not attractive, or at least there is a bias. Or perhaps it's a bias for some race that is correlated with wealth that is correlated with intelligence. Malnutrition cause learning problems. Poor students get bad schools and not out of school tuition when necessary. It's not a 100% correlation, but perhaps enough to cause a difference in the study.
That is interesting. It makes me wonder if this difference is due to something innate, or due to the apparent leg up that attractive people have— teachers being more prone to spend time with them, etc.
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.