<p>I like smart girls, in particular the ones smarter than me :P</p>
<p>Someone dumber to feel superior</p>
<p>for me, my SO’s intelligence isn’t all that important-i would prefer he have a good sense of humour…</p>
<p>IQ is bunk, it’s not an indicator of intelligence, just how well one performs on a standardized test. Some “smart” people look very stupid in my eyes. Dumb people are those who are lazy and don’t live up to any potential they might have.</p>
<p>So what, I’m not fond of stupid people, why do you care? I don’t appreciate you calling me prejudiced. Obviously you like to debate, but please refrain, this is the internet.</p>
<p>I think so (but not significantly so). I’m attracted to brilliant people, but then I worry that I’d feel inferior if I were to actually date them. Clearly I’m a loser with self-esteem issues. :P</p>
<p>this is a funny thread.
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I am definitely drawn to smart and witty guys, intellect makes up for lack of good looking-ness, but not vice versa. also, it takes a lot for me to consider dating someone, so far, no one knows just how much it takes. lol</p>
<p>Girl. Mostly, I know guys who aren’t as intellectual as I’d like them to be, so out of default, I would date someone who is not smarter than me. But when a hot guy’s smart, sign me up!</p>
<p>I go to a random public school, and everyone around is so dumb that my loved one looks special…</p>
<p>I like to date smart people. I used a role where I kind of make jokes on their smartness :)</p>
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<p>Are you prejudiced against prejudiced people? : )</p>
<p>I don’t really think it’s wrong to hate someone because they’re dumb, it’s just wrong to act on that hatred. You can’t help it if you hate someone.</p>
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<p>Yet in your post you brought up “intelligence”, which is clearly innate, and I’m left wondering why you included an irrelevant section on IQ.</p>
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<p>Now, how many prejudiced people like being called prejudiced? But read your statement again; you clearly are:</p>
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<p>You remind me of the white racist who says, “oh, I’m not racist because I’ve got a black friend.”</p>
<p>Sure! He’d have to be veeeery cute to make up for his lack of brains though.</p>
<p>Hm. Sounds like my current boyfriend.</p>
<p>yep</p>
<p>they have to be good at something though and I’m not talking about guitar hero</p>
<p>(I’m a girl)</p>
<p>yeah i would, but theres a point where youre going to have nothing in common and it’ll be hard to hold a convo…</p>
<p>that essentially ensures that you have a relationship with someone relatively on the same playing field as you. (or i guess you could just have a ****ty relationship)</p>
<p>I could really care less if you think I’m prejudiced. I am, I don’t really care. Everyone is prejudiced against something. Yes, even you.</p>
<p>How do I remind you of that kind of person? I have no stupid friends, I choose to socialize with people who use their brains.</p>
<p>I brought up IQ because you did in your original post attacking me, that’s all. A high IQ is not a thing one can posess, it’s a score on a test. It doesn’t make you smart. People can choose to be dumb, no matter how intelligent their genes make them out to be.</p>
<p>(I’m a girl) I would be willing to date guys in a close range of my intelligence, a little “smarter” or “dumber” on either end. I consider myself quite intelligent, but I’ll admit there are plenty of people who blow me away. Heck, I’d even date the guys that make me feel really stupid, as long as they were nice about it and not the braggy “Well, I’m the valedictorian and I won this award and oh, I have to get home to perfect this essay” type. I can’t stand those people. That’s not intelligence, it’s just fervent obsession with winning academically. I’d much prefer the less book-smart guy who has his own interests and can talk intelligently about them.</p>
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<p>i would definitely date a guy who is not as smart. i dont really care about how smart they are…as long as they are nice. don’t prefer smarter guys either.</p>
<p>but then again, im in a public high school and i am considered top of the grade in my school…and guys don’t like that LOL! so even though i am willing to date guys who are not as smart, i dont think guys in my class are willing to date girls who are smarter</p>
<p>I would date someone not as smart as me but a girl who’s smart is such a turn-on. Especially girl’s who take AP classes and want to become doctors. I find that so sexy, lol.</p>
<p>^ “Girls who take AP classes”??? I hope you’re joking- because I knew an unbelievable plethora of semi-■■■■■■■■ chicks who took AP classes. Hardly a reliable measuring stick for general intelligence. </p>
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<p>I might “date” someone less intelligent, but I won’t get in to a more committed relationship with someone who isn’t mentally up to snuff. Gray matter is sexy as hell. A girl who is a middle-of-the-road physical 5 automatically becomes a 7 or an 8 if she has a bangin’ personality (which I suppose one can conclude to be a result of the way in which her brain works).</p>
<p>But this does raise a question about the differences between someone’s personality and their intelligence (or how ‘smart’ they are). I know plenty of academically intelligent females who have the relational poise and maturity of a 5 year-old. Contrarily, I don’t know any women with awesome personalities who would be considered ‘dumb’.</p>
<p>Absolutely. For me, as long as I can actually have a conversation with the person I’m in a relationship with, intelligence really doesn’t matter a great deal. As long as he understands that I’m a relatively driven individual, then it works out.</p>
<p>My boyfriend of two and a half years isn’t gifted, but he’s definitely very smart, and we stump each other constantly in political and historical debates (as history happens to be the only academic interest we share). He puts up with my neuroses, so I don’t really care whether he understands the Pauli Exclusion Principle or the process of DNA replication. </p>
<p>I think personality plays so much more of a role in our relationship than our respective intelligences, really. We just get along so well, and generally have the same sense of humor, so even detailing the events of our days becomes an interesting conversation.</p>