Christian_Szegedy comments on Let them eat cake: Interpersonal Problems vs Tasks - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 22 June 2010 02:25:52PM 1 point [-]

Reactions to profiles on dating services would be a good general test, though it might be harder to pull out data on particular social groups.

Do you believe that, in general people are bad at telling why they have trouble attracting partners, or do you think that the idea that men are put off by intelligent women is an especially unlikely hypothesis?

Comment author: SeventhNadir 22 June 2010 03:11:21PM *  0 points [-]

The former due to the rose tinted glasses of the self serving bias and the fundimental attribution error.

On a personal note I'm very attracted to intelligent women but I wouldn't be surprised at all if men in general did find intellectual women intimidating.