Why are the smartest people usually ugly

Wouldn't you hate to be the one that had to classify kids as "attractive" or "unattractive"? Whether attractive people also tend to be -- at least in an aggregate sense -- more intelligent because of nurture or nature is obviously up for debate. As the researchers write,. If a good-looking boy benefits from the halo effect and teachers, peers, etc. Sometimes praise, even if the praise is not totally deserved, can become a a self-fulfilling prophecy. Praise me for a skill I can't perform extremely well yet , and that praise will often help me grow into excellence.

What gets measured typically gets improved -- and so does what gets praised. So it could just be that good-looking people turn out to be more intelligent because of the way they're treated. If good-looking kids tend to become smarter adults because of the way people treat them It's easy for most of us to recognize great employees; after all, they do great things.

And it's very possible that consistent praise is one of the reasons they've become great. And those assumptions are supported, he writes: A study at Brandeis University found a negative correlation between ugliness and I. In a previous post about intelligent models , we also cited that same London School of Economics research on I. It makes me wonder if beauty makes prettier people more confident in their intellectual pursuits.

When the world smiles at you, do you feel less encumbered, freer to be your best? To become a genius? But I also wonder when exactly the looks of these smart lookers were assessed.

Certain attractive features remain constant, but most are variable. Some hotties were once notties, blossoming into fine specimens later, perhaps after spending their awkward teens and early twenties cracking the books.