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Comment author: skeptical_lurker 09 October 2015 12:36:08PM 1 point [-]

Measured male g had no effect on female short-term attraction, but a small positive effect on long-term attraction

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.

Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 10 October 2015 10:40:36AM 1 point [-]

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.

Comment author: ChristianKl 10 October 2015 11:12:53AM -1 points [-]

match questions such as "which is bigger, the sun or the moon?"

Why do you believe that correlates with intelligence? It might very well correlate with willingness to provide contrarian answers.