my graph!!! Noooo!!! Either way I spent this month reading 4 amazing books that massively increased my understanding, I could have an IQ of 80 and still be happy like this.
Good point. One thing I have wondered recently: Are intelligent people less attractive than non intelligent? The “nerd” stereotype seems to confirm this.
So I think there are two factors correlating intelligence and appearance.
The more nutrients you get in the womb, the more likely you are to develop attractive and symmetric facial features, and also the more well-developed your brain will be. In this sense, smarter people will be more attractive, and vice versa.
People who are naturally unattractive or socially inept will look for niches they can occupy other than standard attractiveness and standard social hierarchies, in which they will be on a relatively higher rung of the ladder. Thus ugly people are more likely to develop their native intellect than are good looking people. (Of course, they also go for other kinds of ladders, like the BDSM ladder, or the comic-book / D&D ladder.)
But on the whole, I think smart people are better looking. I also think this tends to be true mostly in the over 100 IQ vs. under 100 IQ range, not at all for the over 160 vs. under 160 IQ range, where intelligence starts being inversely correlated to social skills etc. of neurological necessity. I went to a top 5 college, and the girls there were beautiful. There were some who were “porn hot”, with static expressions, a generally unaware, low-lidded gaze, etc., but most of them were attractive, alert, dynamic, and hot.
That is suprising what you say about how girls at elite schools. Say you go to the Ivy Leagues and then go to say Arizona or Florida State, I would think there is no comparison that the state school girls would be hotter.
I like to keep a small bookcase that faces my front door well stocked with obtusely titled philosophy books, some in French, none of which I’ve read. Visitors never fail to comment on how clever I must be - especially women.
Also, get a pair of spectacles with glass lenses in if you don’t wear them, that’s another good gig for looking well clever. Don’t get the wire framed ones as they’re not conspicuous enough, go for the big chunky ones, but avoid designer labels as this might give your vanity away.
Throw in a black polo neck, some cords, a subscription to the New Scientist and viola… your a fucking professor!
What is a quotient? Spelling? I dont know even. Perhaps a ratio of sorts, but I really don’t want to find out.
I played nerf hoops with a sike doctor (sorry I was thinking of the brand that made the ball) in his office. I was about 13, dunking below the ceiling (spelling?) Gave me a test. Said I was over the average, but apparently only enough to say I was above average. This makes me incredibly average among those who bemoan the average, but I can never claim jeanous (speeling?) especially not after I’m dead and the average have just got kicked in the ass.
Curiousity killed that cat, but hey, at least the feline found out. Put it to a slogan to sell, cause its crafty wisdom, but even more so catchy.
fuck da humble bumble stumble. And people say I intimidate them, when I really just want to know you.
It’s possible others would disagree with me; I don’t consider girls to be beautiful when they have “stupid” expressions - low-lidded eyes, static expressions, etc. That just totally ruins it for me. And with that in mind, I can tell you specifically and from personal experience that Duke and Harvard girls are definitely hotter than Arizona State girls, Arizona State being a place I had the misfortune to spend one of my graduate years before I transferred to a better program that didn’t offer me quite as sweet a package.
But, if you were going to shoot a porno, you’d find girls better suited for it at Arizona State.
Hey go find a traditional girl, someone who can mold her expression to her domination of your ideals. She will tear you apart, traditionally. If you can’t do anything more than recognize the alert, hyper-vigilant tics, she will dump you for a dope with doe.
Yeah, I’m bitter, so . . . ?
Motion Picture love ideal white lies go against my experience and yet people still say “get out there, ya never know . . .” and they talk of chemicals in their brain matching. If a girl knew how much love I’m worth and could give back, she still wouldn’t know how to brag to her GF’S. It would depend on the kind of light that entered the hot spot window, and that gem reflection of worthiness. Fuck all soul mates. I hope you die happy.
(disclaimer: to online females, I’m not as hostile and worth the time it would take to tame.)
I have hundreds of pages of notes/references from the books organized by subject/book. So at least I could prove i’ve read them. My finger is also perpetually half busted from writing. That being said some of the books can increase your ability to make accurate assessments about the world.
According to my understanding, good mental math skills will give you the base you need to score high on i.q tests
Assuming that’s true, you could train yourself in the relevant math skills, basically turning yourself into a human calculator.
Now these people with high I.Q’s are considered geniuses, but how much genius really exists in a calculator?
People with specialized brains which can perform complex mathematical operations are impressive, but does this make them more intelligent? does this make them more successful?
more “genius”?
I suppose that you could consider “genius” just to be a highly specialized mind…
IQ tests are more exhaustive than that, although there are still plenty of areas in which they can be reasonably criticized.
The best thing I can say for IQ tests, which is a pretty good thing, is that they’re 40% predictive of how well you’ll perform at an arbitrary job. 40% predictability is actually very, very good; far better than the “employee tests” some companies out the ass for. This alone shows that you can’t dismiss IQ tests as crap, or meaningless, or just a test. However, it doesn’t mean that the test is “perfect” or doesn’t miss any large categories of human intelligence. If that 40% became a 95%, then we’d be talkin’.
There is a closer relationship between your height and the amount of respect you get than there is between you IQ and the amount of respect you get. That is what my educational psychology used to say.
Emotional quotient tests are shown to have much higher predictive power in regards to success.
i’d like to see a correleation between genius and success, although it would be impossible to examine because geniuses are only really recognized through their successes.
At a young age I tested at 117, above the average 100. I can admit I’m terrible at keeping abitrary jobs. It seems like dumb people, or at least people who dont think much/consider themselves thinkers are able to keep the job longer.
How does that 40% predictive scale apply to me.
Side note: I’m not emotionally intelligent, so I dont tolerate rude bosses, rude customers or rude co-workers.