The original intent of the IQ test, as stated by the inventor of it: Our purpose is to be able to measure the intellectual capacity of a child who is b

The original intent of the IQ test, as stated by the inventor of it: Our purpose is to be able to measure the intellectual capacity of a child who is brought to us in order to know whether he is normal or retarded. ... We do not attempt to establish or prepare a prognosis and we leave unanswered the question of whether this retardation is curable, or even improveable. We shall limit ourselves to ascertaining the truth in regard to his present mental state. — Alfred Binet *Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon (1873-1961, French psychologist) 'New Methods for the Diagnosis of the Intellectual Level of Subnormals' (1905), in The Development of Intelligence in Children, trans. Elizabeth Kite (1916), 37.* That attractive people are "more likely to be normal than abnormal" isn't a huge surprise, and yet isn't hugely significant. Especially when those attractive "intelligent" people do some very retarded things with their lives.