Um well.......like the Iraq...........and get maps for students.........this is a crock.
Then how does one explain the Hollywierd crowd?................
I know I am
There go all those dumb blonde jokes... unless this is junk science!
But of course, darlink!
On the other hand, my wife certainly fits that profile.
Sorry.... not buying it. I have seen the kids in our Gifted and Talented schools. I think they are all beautiful but they are not “Hollywood’s” version of beautiful. Intelligence and societal accepted concepts of beauty are two different things IMHO.
Guess I was wrong.
This study sounds like someone just trying to turn the “dumb blonde” assertion on its head. I would think that there would be absolutely no correlation between innate intelligence and physical appearance. How does someone’s face effect their brain? To make this study valuable, the assertions would have to remain true for all humans. Yet physical beauty is discerned in different ways in different cultures. What most Westerners consider beautiful may not be what is considered attractive in Africa, for example. Also, what would be the connection? It is like saying someone with blue eyes is more intelligent than someone with brown eyes. Remember that famous test? Perhaps people who are attractive have more self esteem and answered the questions more confidently. Silly test and one for the eugenics books.
My personal experience proves the findings to be accurate.
“Life isn’t fair!”
Who knew?
“London School of Economics” was co-founded by this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw him and Margaret Sanger, founder of “Planned Parenthood” were great buddies. This “study” is not worth 2 squirts if pi$$.
No surprise there.
I must be extremely bright.
My Father calls me sun.
ROTFLOL
I wonder if plastic surgery counts?
Mike, get thee to a Mensa Meeting, then get back to us.
There is an Annual Gathering in Portland this year the first week of July. You can hide in a car and observe the members entering. There IS a Beauty and Brains SIG. No information on the size of it, though.
Do your homework, then try writing the article again.
Y’all are missing the point.
This study shows an increase in IQ for good-looking (whatever that means) people that is almost exactly identical to the decrease in IQ found among blacks as compared to whites.
It is not discussing a multitude of individual people, it is discussing two mythical average people. As with the black/white difference it tells us absolutely nothing about any individual in either group.
Since good-looking people can be assumed to generally have good genetics, it is not unreasonable.
This reminds me of my very first day at high school. An absolutely gorgeous girl, a blue-eyed blonde, was walking toward me in the crowd and I quite literally walked into a phone pole.
Found out later she was “special ed,” and on the low end of the scale for that group.
Really?
