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Interestingly enough I googled and found: https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-scientific-fundamentalist/201012/beautiful-people-really-are-more-intellig

by YZF 5y ago

Interestingly enough I googled and found: https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-scientific-fundamentalist/201012/beautiful-people-really-are-more-intelligent https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-scientific-funda... Though I wouldn't call a mean IQ of 104.23 a genius I guess your hunch seems to have some evidence (sort of surprising to me).

istjohn 5y ago
Fascinating. Attractive children were found to have an average of 12.4 more IQ points than unattractive children. He suggests beauty and IQ are correlated to the same extent that educational attainment and IQ are. I think I had read about this or similar research long ago, but that's a bigger effect size than I would've guessed. I wonder if the results could be replicated.
- Cd00d 5y ago
  They can be correlated, true, or it can simply be evidence that IQ testing has implicit bias on average. I don't know how IQ is tested these days, but I think historically it was a 1:1 or teacher:classroom sort of assessment.
  - throwaway6532 5y ago
    Ravens Matrices
rramadass 5y ago
I would be critical of that article (and others) by any "Evolutionary Psychologist" (the author is one). Many do not consider "Evolutionary Psychology" as a proper Science (i subscribe to this camp) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_evolutionary_psychology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_evolutionary_psyc... Critics argue that many hypotheses put forward to explain the adaptive nature of human behavioural traits are "just-so stories"; neat adaptive explanations for the evolution of given traits that do not rest on any evidence beyond their own internal logic. They allege that evolutionary psychology can predict many, or even all, behaviours for a given situation, including contradictory ones. Therefore, many human behaviours will always fit some hypotheses. Noam Chomsky argued: "You find that people cooperate, you say, 'Yeah, that contributes to their genes' perpetuating.' You find that they fight, you say, ‘Sure, that's obvious, because it means that their genes perpetuate and not somebody else's. In fact, just about anything you find, you can make up some story for it." As an example the same author has an article on the "Truthiness" of "Stereotypes" : https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-scientific-fundamentalist/200804/all-stereotypes-are-true-except-i-what-are-stereotypes https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-scientific-funda.... Applying it to "Blonde Bimbos", the Stereotype says "Blond Bimbos are dumb", while the other explanation says "Beautiful people (Blonde Bimbos are a subset) are more Intelligent" which is a direct contradiction!

by YZF 5y ago

istjohn 5y ago

Fascinating. Attractive children were found to have an average of 12.4 more IQ points than unattractive children. He suggests beauty and IQ are correlated to the same extent that educational attainment and IQ are. I think I had read about this or similar research long ago, but that's a bigger effect size than I would've guessed. I wonder if the results could be replicated.

Cd00d 5y ago
They can be correlated, true, or it can simply be evidence that IQ testing has implicit bias on average. I don't know how IQ is tested these days, but I think historically it was a 1:1 or teacher:classroom sort of assessment.
- throwaway6532 5y ago
  Ravens Matrices

rramadass 5y ago

I would be critical of that article (and others) by any "Evolutionary Psychologist" (the author is one). Many do not consider "Evolutionary Psychology" as a proper Science (i subscribe to this camp) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_evolutionary_psychology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_evolutionary_psyc... Critics argue that many hypotheses put forward to explain the adaptive nature of human behavioural traits are "just-so stories"; neat adaptive explanations for the evolution of given traits that do not rest on any evidence beyond their own internal logic. They allege that evolutionary psychology can predict many, or even all, behaviours for a given situation, including contradictory ones. Therefore, many human behaviours will always fit some hypotheses. Noam Chomsky argued: "You find that people cooperate, you say, 'Yeah, that contributes to their genes' perpetuating.' You find that they fight, you say, ‘Sure, that's obvious, because it means that their genes perpetuate and not somebody else's. In fact, just about anything you find, you can make up some story for it." As an example the same author has an article on the "Truthiness" of "Stereotypes" : https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-scientific-fundamentalist/200804/all-stereotypes-are-true-except-i-what-are-stereotypes https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-scientific-funda.... Applying it to "Blonde Bimbos", the Stereotype says "Blond Bimbos are dumb", while the other explanation says "Beautiful people (Blonde Bimbos are a subset) are more Intelligent" which is a direct contradiction!