Tag: intelligence

The ugly truth: Those friggin’ beautiful people are probably smarter than us, too

A study in England conducted by researchers at the London School of Economics found that attractive men and women generally have higher IQs. “Physical attractiveness is significantly positively associated with general intelligence.”

The Editor thinks this story is probably nonsense. The Administrator thinks it verifies what he’s always known in his heart.

The New York Daily News has the details:

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Yeah, well, if they're so damn smart why did he star in "Sinbad" and why did she marry Billy Bob Thornton?

A study in England conducted by researchers at the London School of Economics found that attractive men and women generally have higher IQs. “Physical attractiveness is significantly positively associated with general intelligence,” said LSE lead researcher Satoshi Kanazawa, in the latest issue of the journal Intelligence.

The study indicated attractive men have IQs that are 13.6 points above the average, while beautiful women are 11.4 points higher than average.

Since intelligent men are more inclined to achieve more success, they are “more likely to marry beautiful women,” Kanazawa said. “Given that both intelligence and physical attractiveness are highly heritable, there should be a positive correlation between intelligence and physical attractiveness in the children’s generation.”

(Note: The remarkably handsome Administrator includes his photo with his comments, but the hideously disfigured Editor doesn’t.)

Source: New York Daily News

Liberal offers scientific proof that liberals are more intelligent than conservatives

Evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa, who comes to us from the London School of Economics, says, “So more intelligent people are more likely to acquire unnatural preferences and values and being a liberal is one of them and as a result more intelligent people tend to be more liberal than less intelligent people.”


Evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa, who comes to us from the London School of Economics, says, “So more intelligent people are more likely to acquire unnatural preferences and values and being a liberal is one of them and as a result more intelligent people tend to be more liberal than less intelligent people.”

There’s one part of that statement that is undeniable – liberals do acquire some unnatural preferences and values.

H/T: Breitbart.tv

Great news: British kids are even dumber than American kids

So much for the fantasy that American kids are the world’s most ignorant. According to a new survey, British kids are no geniuses, either.

Sir Isaac Newton, English physicist, astronomer, mathematician and inventor of the bouffant hairdo

So much for the fantasy that American kids are the world’s most ignorant. According to a new survey, British kids are no geniuses, either.

The BBC reports the dumb details:

One in 10 children thinks the Queen invented the telephone, a survey of children’s science knowledge suggests.

Others gave credit for the invention to Charles Darwin and Noel Edmonds.

One in 20 of the 1,000 pupils polled thought Star Wars character Luke Skywalker or Richard Branson had been the first to set foot on the Moon.

Some 60% of nine- and 10-year-olds thought Sir Isaac Newton discovered fire, the survey for science campaign Birmingham Science City found.

Despite these misconceptions, more children want to win a Nobel prize for science than the X Factor.

The survey of primary and secondary school children in the UK suggests there is some confusion about key scientific achievements.

Just under a half of boys (49%) correctly pinned down gravity as Newton’s ground-breaking discovery, compared with 76% of girls.

Just over a third of boys said Newton discovered fire, while the remaining 16% either said he invented the internet, or discovered the solar system or America.

Stupid Brit kids thought Sir Isaac Newton invented the internet? C’mon, wake up, you little morons. Everyone knows Al Gore invented the internet.

Source: BBC

The smartest President ever. Well, at least of the last five

Kenneth T. Walsh, Chief White House correspondent for US News & World Report, met the The Greatest President History in person and thinks he’s also the Smartest President In History.

"I'll take The 57 States for a thousand, Alex."
"I'll take The 57 States for a thousand, Alex."

Kenneth T. Walsh, Chief White House correspondent for US News & World Report, met the The Greatest President History in person and thinks he’s also the Smartest President In History.

“Face to face,” Walsh says, “President Obama seems even more unflappable, cerebral, and dispassionate than he appears on television.”

Silly us. We thought things like the war with Fox News, the AP, and Edmonds.com made Obama seem a wee bit thin skinned. But Walsh tells us, “Obama’s natural instinct is to keep his feelings to himself.”

Just to be sure, we’re still talking about Barack Obama, right?

Finally, Walsh says, “I have interviewed each of the past five presidents — Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and now Obama—and Obama seems the most cerebral and the least emotional of them all.”

That may be true, Kenneth, but we’ll bet you good money that the other four could have told you how many states there are.

Source: NewsBusters.org

– Written by Patrick Michael

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