So much for the stereotype of the dumb cheerleader. A British led survey published last month says that attractive people are more intelligent than average people. The study seems to be more reliable than many others due to its large number of participants (52,000 from Great Britain and the United States) and the statistically significant increase in IQ that was measured in attractive people.
Good looking men had IQ's 13.6 points higher than average and attractive women's intelligence quotients were on average 11.4 points higher than average. There is a 10 point spread between people of different IQ levels. An average IQ is between 100 and 110, and an above average IQ is between 110 and 120. This was determined by researchers at the London School of Economics.
"Given that both intelligence and physical attractiveness are highly heritable, there should be a positive correlation between intelligence and physical attractiveness in the children's generation," said lead researcher Satoshi Kanazawa. Since more intelligent people are more successful in life, they will have more attractive partners, Kanazawa says.
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