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.
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.
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.