Comments on: Like modestly attracts like

By: ackbark

ackbark — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 23:37:16 +0000

In ordinary social circumstances intelligence and personality flow together pretty seamlessly.

How do you in practice separate the two?

By: RafeK

RafeK — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 05:48:40 +0000

I am curious if their are strong correlations for some asymetric traits that like male height or intelligence with female beauty.

By: Miguel Madeira

Miguel Madeira — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 23:33:49 +0000

“In addition to indicating that people are able to make judgments about g in real life”

Does not necessarly means that – could simply mean that people with very different g have difficulty in interaction together

By: ben g

ben g — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 21:15:09 +0000

Attractiveness might be the only thing with a higher correlation in mates than intelligence. Make a model where you combine attractiveness and intelligence and I think you could explain most variation in mating.

By: Darkseid

Darkseid — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:41:59 +0000

ah, so people really DO value intelligence like they say in their dating profiles but the detail is that they prefer intelligence similar to their own level? i always assumed they were lying and only cared about money or looks but i guess, technically, they are speaking their own (relative) truth at least some of the time.

By: AG

AG — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:23:24 +0000

The findings make sense to me as observation in real life. If our ancestors did this for millions years, sexual selection might contribute great deal to the evolution of human intelligence.

Hope it continue.

By: Grey

Grey — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 11:34:35 +0000

In terms of social heirarchy there’s actually two heirarchies, blue-collar and white-collar, one on top of the other. The people at the top of the blue-collar heirarchy i.e electrician level, have been assortatively mating on g since forever.