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The design involved the female subjects viewing the male subjects performing several tasks such as reading headlines from various online news websites and answering open-ended questions before evaluating their desirability as short-term or long-term partners. The study authors chose these tasks because they correlate positively with IQ test performance. The effects of male IQ in this study were weak (only explaining 3% of the variance in female ratings across conditions). The importance of intelligence did not vary across short to long-term conditions, contradicting the idea that male intelligence should be more attractive to women regarding LTRs. However, this could be because women are more primed for long-term mating, especially when asked directly. There was also no evidence of menstrual shifts in women's preferences for intelligence. | The design involved the female subjects viewing the male subjects performing several tasks such as reading headlines from various online news websites and answering open-ended questions before evaluating their desirability as short-term or long-term partners. The study authors chose these tasks because they correlate positively with IQ test performance. The effects of male IQ in this study were weak (only explaining 3% of the variance in female ratings across conditions). The importance of intelligence did not vary across short to long-term conditions, contradicting the idea that male intelligence should be more attractive to women regarding LTRs. However, this could be because women are more primed for long-term mating, especially when asked directly. There was also no evidence of menstrual shifts in women's preferences for intelligence. | ||
The finding of this study likely differs from other, larger-scale studies that find null effects for IQ on female ratings of males due to methodological differences, such as not controlling for male attractiveness when it came to WAIS scores as it was believed the halo effect would not bias these. However, this disregards the idea that physical attractiveness could be positively correlated with verbal IQ (vocabulary subtest). In line with other research into this topic, the study found that subjective perceptions of intelligence were much more critical in driving mating outcomes than IQ as determined by tests. | The finding of this study likely differs from other, larger-scale studies that find null effects for IQ on female ratings of males due to methodological differences, such as not controlling for male attractiveness when it came to WAIS scores as it was believed the halo effect would not bias these. However, this disregards the idea that physical attractiveness could be positively correlated with verbal IQ (vocabulary subtest). In line with other research into this topic, the study found that subjective perceptions of intelligence were much more critical in driving mating outcomes than IQ as determined by tests. | ||
Additionally, Witmer et al. (2025) conducted a fake dating app study which included a crude self-report of IQ score (range used 80-120) as part of the artificial bios generated for the research. There was a reasonably small but significant main effect of self-stated IQ on desirability ratings for the profiles (β = 0.12, SE = 0.02, 95% CI [0.08, 0.16], BF10 > 4000). There was no interaction between sex and the effect size for IQ and desirability ratings, meaning men also found higher IQ women more desirable, and there was additional effect for homophily in IQ on the desirability ratings (β = 0.08, SE = 0.02, 95% CI [0.03, 0.12]), simply meaning that people that perceived themselves as higher IQ found higher IQ profiles more desirable.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2451958824002124</ref> | |||
===Evidence against=== | ===Evidence against=== | ||