A genie appears before you and says you must choose to be very physically attractive, but slightly below average intelligence, or very intelligent, but slightly below average attractiveness? Which would you choose, and why?
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Clever but slightly below average attractiveness? Yes, I’ll take that. It would be a double upgrade for me.
I chose Chameleon from the Xanth universe.
Attractive, it’s wild how people are more likely to help you in either small or greater acts or be willing to overlook some of your flaws.
I think I’d rather be smart. I’m honestly often so impressed with beautiful people, because that shit takes work.
I can roll out of bed, pull my three week old sauce stained shirt over my gut, and go do smart shit with a terrible haircut and no one gives a fuck.
Beautiful people will have chosen matching outfits worth thousands, spent an hour on hair and makeup, all after a morning gym session, and they’ll keep that hair perfect all day, getting their spa session in and finding time to do their nails.
How do they even have time to cook a healthy well balanced meal?
I pick the grilled cheese sandwich.
Honestly, according to IQ tests, I’m already in the 95th+ percentile for intelligence. I’m also on the autism spectrum, and just got diagnosed with severe ADHD late last year. I’ve accomplished fuck-all by being smart, and it’s mostly made me depressed. I’d pick being slightly dumb, but hot.
What IQ is the 95th percentile?
Edit: huh, if this chart is accurate then I’m in the 99th percentile based on the score I have repeatedly received from multiple tests. This can’t be right. I’m not that smart!
I’m officially in the 99th+ percentile, but IIRC your score gets less accurate the farther you deviate from the mean. And a high reasoning ability is absolutely no predictor of success in life.
Plus, I feel like a douchebag when I say shit like, “oh, my IQ is 140…” as if that’s some kind of achievement or worth something all on it’s own.
Right? I never talk about it unless someone else brings it up first and doesn’t have an embarrassing score. LOL. I have a friend who took the test when we were in high school, and was bragging about how he got a 98. He wasn’t smart enough to realize that’s not a good score. The rest of us were like “oooh, that’s greeeeat!”.
So… the genie offers to make me look better by increasing my looks to only slightly below average? Noice!
If we’re talking 90+ percentile then no question I’d go with smarts and use it to have a big impact on some field of science. Otherwise I’d probably still pick smarts but it’s more of a tossup.
The latter. I guess that’s kinda what I have already and I have no complaints. I’m aro/ace anyway so I don’t really need the stunning looks for dating purposes. My relatively decent ability to learn new things never ceases to entertain me
How about slightly below both but with some solid executive functioning and 0 mood disorders? I’ll take that.
Beautiful.
I’ve tried the other way already. Not so good.
I’m already smart and beautiful.
Isn’t there a genie out there that cures anxiety?
Not really a genie, but I get it from a bloke called Spider. It’s very more-ish.
Would I be pretty and daft enough to not overthink and complicate everything and to finally be happy?
Ok then. Let me be a himbo. The ladies may take advantage.
Intelligence can be attractive too! And even in the cases where it’s not, I think I can always go for surgery or something if it’s really that bad.
Intelligence can be learnt, but it’s much harder than say, correcting one’s facial features or getting into shape imo.
I want the intelligence, but could I settle for my current level of attractiveness?
