[christophilus]

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.

[metadat]

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-scientific-funda...

There is no hard and fast rule, but on average the pretty ones tend to be more intelligent.

[gus_massa]

> 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.

[christophilus]

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.

[metadat]

It's everything. The genes, the looks, the positive side effects from the good looks, all add up to micro and macro evolutionary benefits.