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RE: Intelligence Is Darn Sexy! 🖤 Why We Love To Date Nerds - The Secrets of 'Sapiosexuality'

in #science7 years ago

I'd like to go all thumbs up and say 'go nerds!', but I think you're conflating a bunch of things and calling it intelligence.

There are many different types of intelligence and almost nobody has all of them. There's probably a guy meditating on a mountaintop who has the most self-intelligence of anyone who ever lived, but it's not going to get him a girlfriend. Would you agree that Elon Musk is intelligent? I don't think anybody has ever accused him of being sensitive to other people's experiences. Do you know anything about Einstein's relationships? They were not a model to emulate.

If anything, people who are the poster children for intelligence are highly adapted to one thing and a disaster at most other things. I think you alluded to this with, 'Smart people don't go half-way. They go all-in or leave it be.'

I'm not saying there aren't people out there who have all of these traits at level 10, but they are not highly intelligent. If they exist at all, they are unicorns.

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Well the idea of this article was actually not to define the perfect human being - or unicorns as you called them :-) - but to explain that sex appeal is much more than physical appearance. I also didn't say that someone has to fulfill all of the points mentioned here, I just said that scientist have defined these personality traits as characteristic for especially intelligent people. Still nobody said that if you don't fit in these pattern, you're not intelligent. Life is not only black and white, there are many shades of grey, and so it happens with human beings. I didn't came to know Einstein and his relationships personally, but I guess it would've been a quite interesting encounter :-)