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Comment author: christopherj 07 December 2013 10:54:53PM 1 point [-]

Research has shown that we automatically assign to good-looking individuals such favorable traits as talent, kindness, honesty, and intelligence

The next question, of course, is do we assign good-looking individuals these traits more, or less often than nature does? For example, there is a correlation between physical attractiveness and intelligence. A pretty big one.

Beautiful People Really ARE More Intelligent

If you want to estimate someone’s intelligence without giving them an IQ test, you would do just as well to base your estimate on their physical attractiveness as you would to base it on their years of education.