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"most men are intimidated by intelligent women"

While in theory a man's chances of finding a mate increase as his IQ increases, I'm not entirely convinced that women are attracted to raw intelligence either.



To essentially paraphrase "the trouble with genius" from Malcolm Gladwell's outliers, IQ is correlated with success but only up to a point. When two individuals have an IQ above roughly 125, practical intelligence ("socia skills") is often more predictive of success (and I am sure, especially of social success) than raw intelligence.

Good news, however, is that practical intelligence can be learned (with few exceptions such as Asperger's syndrome, but even in that case, there are coping strategies).


http://www.gnxp.com/blog/2007/04/intercourse-and-intelligenc...

"Each additional point of IQ increased the odds of virginity by 2.7% for males and 1.7% for females."


I was talking about odds of marriage, not the age of losing ones virginity.




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