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Dum-dum-dum-DOOM
MALE GENERAL INTELLIGENCE (G) DOES NOT INCREASE FEMALE SEXUAL ATTRACTION
(all caps in the original X-D)
P.S. This is a Just Another Psych Study, so any resemblance between its conclusions and reality is merely coincidental. Good for lulz, not too good for serious consideration. But it's funny :-)
Guessing the distribution before I look: Small-ish penalty for below-average intelligence, a flat line through average into slightly above average, then a small-ish penalty for above-average intelligence.
ETA: Oh. No data provided. Pity.
Well, it certainly agrees with the anecdotal evidence.
Not with mine. My anecdotal evidence says that high IQ does NOT compensate for a variety of other deficiencies (from personal hygiene to self-confidence issues) but otherwise it's very useful :-)
In which case there's still the issue that it seems to correlate with said deficiencies.
I think it's more because of restriction-of-range effects (people who have both low IQ and said deficiencies are likely to be in their parents' basements so we don't usually see them, and people who have both are likely to be in places like DC so we don't usually see them either) than because they actually correlate in the whole population.
Well, autism causes both for starters.
What?
EDIT: Do you mean the technical meaning or the colloquial meaning? The former aren't that smart in average...
Autism is a spectrum. Here I mean the ones whose social skills aren't so ban its impossible to meaningfully interact with them.
EDIT: fixed typo.
And having social skills so bad it's impossible to meaningfully interact with you causes high IQ? What?
Citation needed.
A paper titled "High IQ is correlated with the inability to learn to use a shower" got to have a decent chance at getting an IgNobel X-)
The usual caveats about small and culturally limited studies apply, not to mention that it's a hypothetical behavior study.
This being said, it's worth noting that a lot of mating venues have so much background noise that conversation is discouraged.
So male intelligence does increase romantic attraction, but if all you want is a shag then you don't care about intelligence.
This makes sense, and also makes the title a little misleading.
Wouldn't a better approach be to look at okcupid profile reading level (as in, does their profile use long words and correct grammar) or answers to match questions such as "which is bigger, the sun or the moon?" and correlate this with how many messages they get? I suppose this wouldn't be very academic, but you could get a sample size of millions.
Some of the posts on OkTrends, the official OkCupid blog, have studied similar things.
Why do you believe that correlates with intelligence? It might very well correlate with willingness to provide contrarian answers.
It's worth noting that it cites an existing study titled "Intelligence and mate choice: intelligent men are always appealing"
Wild hypothesis: it is possible that the Flynn effect has levelled out the range where intelligence was a factor of sexual attractiveness?
Maybe it's more important to mate with a 90 IQ rather than an 85 IQ, but after 100 IQ every male seems equal.
It's interesting how you are not conditioning this on the IQ of the girl...
Sure, you can always add a parameter to make the model more complex, if needed.
How is that interesting?
How would you have conditioned the preference on women's IQ?