She Looks Smart in a Bikini

True confessions time. Long ago, in my youth, my father once expressed the opinion that beautiful women are also more intelligent. This struck me and my siblings at the time, carefully trained to politically correct notions in the schools, as a laughable idea.

I have since realized that it is almost certainly true. It is true because, so long as society values both intelligence and beauty, intelligent men and women are going to have a better than average chance of mating with beautiful men and women, and vice versa. It follows that the next generation stands a better than average chance of being both intelligent and beautiful; and so it continues, the statistical advantage growing generation by generation.

Now a recent study confirms this:

http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/2011/01/16/2011-01-16_beautiful_men_women_have_high_iqs_too_study.html

This logic, followed, goes interesting places. But we'd better just leave it there for now...