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Comment author: MrMind 09 October 2015 07:02:58AM 0 points [-]

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.

Comment author: Lumifer 09 October 2015 02:38:06PM 3 points [-]

but after 100 IQ every male seems equal

It's interesting how you are not conditioning this on the IQ of the girl...

Comment author: MrMind 12 October 2015 07:19:35AM -1 points [-]

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?