<p>Hey, I always ask a guy his SAT score before even considering him as dating material. I mean, who doesn't? :P</p>
<p>Honestly, IK...
Intelligence matters, but the way we judge that is incredibly subjective in the dating world. It's more about conversational depth than GPA.</p>
<p>As columnist Dave Barry once said as to the difference between men and women:</p>
<p>Women want romance, candlelight dinners, gifts when there is no occassion, and regular displays of interest and affection.</p>
<p>Men want tickets to the Super Bowl.</p>
<p>From my own experience, women aren't looking for 'smart guys' or 'dumb guys'. Women find confidence to be sexy. It's all about the confidence.
That is why women often choose the 'dumb jock' over the 'shy intellectual', because the jock seems to exude a greater amount of self-confidence.
That is what, I believe, it is all about.
There are highly attractive women who get guys flirting with them day after day, I know I'll never get, because there are so many guys better at playing the 'confidence game'. Of course, good looks are important. Good looks and high self-esteem often come together of course. However, men (also from my own experience, haha) pay a lot of attention to physical attractiveness.</p>
<p>From a purely biological point of view, woman are looking for confident, assured and dominant men who will provide their offspring with the best chance of survival. Women crave dominance (however "liberated" our society claims to be from genetic imperatives), and the men who do best with the ladies tend to use the same subtle cues that dominant primates do (making her laugh without laughing himself, controlling the hold and break of eye contact, maintaining open body stance around females, etc.)</p>
<p>I like the shy intellectual...Sorry, that didn't contribute much, I'm just saying that I am a woman that likes the shy intellectual?</p>