Journal mcgrew's Journal: This just in - Nerds get laid!! 2
So I'm reading New Scientist, and it seems our stereotype of being rejected by the opposite sex, according to one researcher, is bass-ackwards. It writes:
Lonely men ought to flaunt their copies of New Scientist. Women looking for both one-night stands and long-term relationships go for geniuses over dumb jocks, according to a new study of hundreds of university students.
"Women want the best of both worlds. Not only a physically attractive man, but somebody in the long term who can provide for them," says Mark Prokosch, an evolutionary psychologist at Elon University in North Carolina, who led the study.
To many women, a smart man will appeal because he is likely to be clever enough to keep his family afloat. But he may also pass on "good" genes to his children, say Prokosch and his colleagues at the University of California, Davis.
Alas, the end of the story says the we do, indeed, not get laid. It's the nerdy clothes and taped up coke bottle glasses.
Looks were still a much more powerful predictor of sex appeal than brains. "Women are still going for the hunk," Prokosch says. "If you had an option to pick from five different people, you would pick the most attractive one."
So in a perfect world, women want a Nobel prize winner with movie-star looks. Creativity also proved to be a sought-after trait, and Prokosch's team is currently working on an objective measure of creativity, similar to the intelligence test they used.
However, in a world of limited resources, not every woman gets what she wants, and some are bound to fall for ugly, unintelligent and uncreative men. "There's always other people out there that find everything attractive," Prokosch says.
Journal reference: Evolution and Human Behavior (DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2008.07.004)
So anyway, Charlie called me this morning; I hadn't heard from her in days. I took her home, and she, Linda, and Tami are all arguing.
The estrogen is overpowering. But I still can't get laid.
Now thanks to New Scientist you all think I'm lying.
Thank god (Score:2)
However, in a world of limited resources, not every woman gets what she wants, and some are bound to fall for ugly, unintelligent and uncreative men.
And thank god for that.
Lying? (Score:2)
Now thanks to New Scientist you all think I'm lying.
Hell no. I can't get laid either, and nor can several people I know. I'm far more inclined to say the New Scientist is full of shit.