honestly there was a fascinating story where there was uh...
they have this feature called the explainer twenty eleven
and there was a question which the explained it was asked answer which is
why are smart people usually agree ungli
and there's a fascinating
and alice's of this on the website which i invite you to go check out it's late
dot com and it actually turns out that the premise seems to be flawed the
premise which is that smart people are usually ugly
actually seems to be untrue bearing in mind that that
intelligence is subjective in a sense of how you measure it is like you really
the way is academic achievement really the way what is the way to measure that
and of course attractiveness is completely in the eye of the beholder as
well
it's a really fascinating story take a look at any what's your sense of the
school is when you think about the correlation between intelligence than
attractiveness
i think certainly
socially people do attach
something to that but there is a a link in a lot of people's minds between how
someone looks
uh... symmetry
size
what have you and intelligence but is it a positive or negative correlation is it
usually d_a_ which which was more prevalent view
the idea that smart people are usually can't nerdy and unattractive
or that looks tend to coincide with brains
i would say in a lot of cases the books tend to coincide with brains and no so
you could see actually reject the premise of the of the question here
why well our people usually a
i'm not talking about
actual
actual intelligence on the tracking about people's perceived
of of intelligence and jackson's and how they relate so i'm not saying that
more people
more tracked people are more intelligent forty opposite
people's perceptions seem to be that way
guidance on
you know just gonna say that i think there are contradictory stereotypes as
on the one hand there's like the
you know the dumb blonde
the the dumb beautiful blind but on the other hand we know
that um... comparator relatively unattractive people more attractive
people who were interviewed for jobs
are more likely to be selected for the job
then the studies that have done have kind of built on this and there were a
number of different findings one study showed that scientists now know
it is possible to gauge someone's intelligence by kind of sizing them up
overall taking into consideration
their appearance
their grooming their dress and a number of other factors which may be more
related to socioeconomic freely
intelligence
and attractiveness per se
it is possible to actually if you onion birth studies have been done where
people are shown pictures and you have to say how intelligent and how
attractive you think this prison is their positively correlated and it turns
out to be supported by i_q_ tests of those people
that's part one
part to is uh... could it actually be that's smart people
are rather that good-looking people are more intelligent or could it just be
that
very very
undelete people
tend to also
be less smart and it seems that their actually is a correlation that when you
took a look at what people of the people that have traditionally considered to be
unattractive by conventional standards as reported by others whatever and
individuals
barometer is for attractiveness
do tend to actually have lower i_q_'s as well
and then the question becomes well isn't an issue of if you are smarter you can
appear you can present yourself in a way that will be interpreted more as being
attracted
or is they're actually something genetic or inherent in that
what's your thought
my father maddie's uh... the mine can be very powerful thing and i think it's
pretty easy to check yourself into
thinking that someone may be smarter than they are recovered in the are based
on how they look yeah i don't have a long history of attractive geniuses
right there's there's a number of uh... of rather of unattractive very elite
geniuses
um... if we look at uh... i mean there there's a long does on history if you
look at pictures of john paul starts he's considered to be a very bizarre
looking guy with
his eyes going in different directions and the strange hair and sunglasses
uh... brilliant brilliant guy
and it is very hard to look at this in terms of correlation versus causation
iraq i want to hear from our audience on this do you believe that there that the
correlation that seems to have been found a slight positive correlation
between attractiveness an intelligence exists
do you think that this is maybe a halo effect type of thing where people see an
attractive person and simply assume they're more intelligent
even when they may not be
i'm very curious to hear and uh... for people in this matter i don't have some
interesting emails
now discussing i mean
uh... if it's true that there's a slight positive correlation between
attractiveness in intelligence
that still doesn't mean that you can deduced by looking at someone whether
they're smarter dahmer just by like say looking at a picture of them now you
know unfortunately what people will probably want to get from this is like a
practical how-to how to observe people and determine the you know has my pal
smart they are whether personalities better and you just can't really do
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