Anyone else notice how attractive girls always seem about 15 IQ points dumber than they are? It always bothered me that girls who I knew to be smart still ended up sounding stupid.
I speculate that it's because attractive girls end up choosing their friends based on status/attractiveness, and not intelligence, so she takes on the personality and interests of her friends who are dim or average in intelligence yet hot, rather than hang with the smart plain janes. Smart girls who were average looking in high school tend to be better bets.
Another problem, in my view, is that there's no intelligent, elite culture. There's only pop culture. Even smart people aren't introduced to the finer things, so few people develop a taste for anything more refined than MTV and Glee. I attended a top university, hoping that people would be more articulate and intellectual, with more urbane interests, and didn't really find that to be the case.
I speculate that it's because attractive girls end up choosing their friends based on status/attractiveness, and not intelligence, so she takes on the personality and interests of her friends who are dim or average in intelligence yet hot, rather than hang with the smart plain janes. Smart girls who were average looking in high school tend to be better bets.
Another problem, in my view, is that there's no intelligent, elite culture. There's only pop culture. Even smart people aren't introduced to the finer things, so few people develop a taste for anything more refined than MTV and Glee. I attended a top university, hoping that people would be more articulate and intellectual, with more urbane interests, and didn't really find that to be the case.