If you could be more attractive or more intelligent, but not both, which would you choose?
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Anonymous
| This question just kind of came to me, and I thought I'd ask the crowd. I see a fair amount of discussion around here about what we want in a significant other, but I wonder what we want in ourselves. I happen to think I'm plenty smart but just kind of average looks wise and, so, the temptation would be to want to be better looking. But, I think it's fairly universal in our society to over-estimate one's own intelligence and to under-estimate one's own appearance. Also, as a culture, I think we tend to glorify appearance more directly than we glorify intelligence. |
Anonymous
| More attractive. I'm already very intelligent and fairly cute that can polish up to beautiful with the right effort. It'd be nice to get the "beautiful woman" treatment I remember from my 20s back, without having to put in time/work. |
Anonymous
| Intelligence as long as that correlated to increased income which makes being more attractive easier. |
Anonymous
| More attractive. I am highly intelligent, but have lost much of my youthful good looks. |
Anonymous
| Can i choose to be more charismatic? |
Anonymous
This. I was an 8. Now I’m a 4 at best. Seriously have not she’d well at all. Generally I’d choose intelligence over looks though. It’s just that I have plenty of the former and none of the latter. |
Anonymous
| I'm smart but have severe learning disabilities. I'm also ugly. If I could be smarter in a way that let me overcome the LDs, then I could earn more and be able to afford plastic surgery! |
Anonymous
But you can fix "ugly" with a huge makeover, maybe even plastic surgery. Harder to fix "stupid". |
Anonymous
| Attractive, intelligence has been useful but honestly not THAT useful. |
Anonymous
| I get to keep my current level of intelligence? More attractive, no question. |
Anonymous
I think ignorance really is bliss. Give me better looks any day. |
Anonymous
| I am intelligent enough already. I actually think in many situations, being intelligent makes life more difficult. I'd choose being more attractive. |
Anonymous
| Attractive. I’m pretty intelligent but fairly…”unphotogenic,” let’s euphemistically say! |
Anonymous
| More attractive for sure since I'm already more intelligent than the majority of people I know. That can actually be difficult sometimes, I don't want to make it any worse. |
Anonymous
| Looks, definitely. Especially if I could guarantee that I would age well. |