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So, you think the one on the right would have a lower IQ? Yeah, she looks more athletic, but I think she'd have the higher IQ too. Maybe that's just me.

• sliverstorm 16y ago
  I think the parents were alluding to the unconscious deduction many many people have been shown to make- that more attractive people are smarter.
  • mikecane 16y ago
    It's funny how things have changed since when I was a kid in the 1960s. Back then, attractive people were generally thought NOT to be smart because they were more social than unattractive (average-looking) people. I hold this belief to this day and in my personal life it has been rarely wrong.
    • sliverstorm 16y ago
      At least in the US, that was hot on the heels of a lot of great scientists, and the nation's pride (the moon landing) was an absolute triumph of the brainy types. I wasn't alive back then, but I've always gotten the impression attractive people were seen as less intelligent as a direct backlash from scientists and other brainy things being 'in'.