<p>Me and my friends were just talking about this and I was wondering what you guys think. Please post your gender for reference.</p>
<p>me: I'm a girl, and yes. I don't find them as attractive though.</p>
<p>It would make my life very difficult if I had to date only people as smart as me. ;)</p>
<p>UCLAri -- haha, you're so cocky! what's your gender?</p>
<p>I'm a guy, wingwang and all. </p>
<p>But no, I'm very fortunate to date a wonderful woman whose academic strengths lie in math and science, while mine lie in...well, everything. I kid, I'm better at languages, and qualitative analysis. Not that I'm a poor student of quantitative studies, but she picks them up at speeds I can hardly muster.</p>
<p>A very good fried of mine,from Taiwan, has 2 brilliant daughters who got accepted to all Ivies, did live in with not so brilliant men whom my friends call bums(loosely, of course). My theory, is that these girls who are very smart, tend to be very dominant and they would not want anybody to dominate them like their dad. My friend married their dad with a Phd from CalTech(very smart), she also has a Phd from Claremont(no slouch), but eventually divorced the dad because he always had such a temper tantrum. It was extremely difficult to live with such person. Not that I equate smart with temper tantrum or difficult personality but one has to take everythings into account when choosing a person to date/marry and not just brain power.</p>
<p>I believe that it's important, however, that the intellect at least be somewhat similar. I mean, I'd want to shoot anyone who couldn't hold a conversation with me on something as simple as relativistic quantum field theory.</p>
<p>im a science/math guy; i guess im pretty bright. id date someone less intelligent than i am to a certain extent. i dont really know why, but i would. it doesnt matter to me much i guess.</p>
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"id date someone less intelligent than i am to a certain extent."
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you do care.</p>
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I'd want to shoot anyone who couldn't hold a conversation with me on something as simple as relativistic quantum field theory.
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then you'll probably want to shoot me. Cuz I have no idea what that is. haha. But then again, physics is really not my thing.</p>
<p>neither do I and my husband and we have degrees in Engineering(lol).
Intelligent is divided into 7 categories, this is what taught to my daughter in 7th grade. So the word intelligent is very broad, it's not just IQ, but it's EQ as well.</p>
<p>Apparently, my facetiousness took a turn for the worst, and the joke was lost. Hooray for the Internet.</p>
<p>I was joking, actually. I really don't need to hold a conversation at that level, but if she can't understand why I'm passionate about learning about this or that, I'd get rather...indignant. </p>
<p>Thankfully, my girlfriend can bore me with conversations about stem cell research, and I bore her right back with veto player analysis in multi-party systems. It's a strange symbiotic relationship where we both learn quite a bit.</p>
<p>Female, and yes... though I do like intelligent guys. Funnily enough my bf is also a CS major, but in a different college... So much geekery there.</p>
<p>Pshaw, I can totally outgeek you. My girlfriend and I play World of Warcraft together, and even belonged to the same guild!</p>
<p>I mean, we started dating because of a mutual interest in Star Wars!</p>
<p>We cosplayed together! </p>
<p>Geek^nth degree!</p>
<p>Guy</p>
<p>Yes I would date someone not as smart as me. They might be smarter than me or dumber. As long as I can hold an interesting conversation with them, I'm good to go. And have some common sense too.</p>
<p>is this a serious question?</p>
<p>of course i date girls not as smart as me, how else would i be hookin up with bangin babes on a consistent basis? GOSH</p>
<p>i dunno thats just me haha</p>
<p>"I just don't find people who are not as smart as me attractive." </p>
<p>I think I heard that from someone somewhere. Does anyone know who's quote is that?</p>
<p>I would to an extent but he better have a great personality and compatibility</p>
<p>Probably not.</p>
<p>If they were not as smart as me in science and math, then they'd better be smarter than me in English and literature. But they should still be decently smart at science and math and enjoy the subject, or else they wouldn't be able to handle my nerdiness.</p>
<p>It's weird. I'm not really attracted to either looks or personality (both have to be decent though), but I'm completely entranced by intellect.</p>
<p>Are you a woman?</p>
<p>yeah i mean maybe this is something i dont understand, i dont think it makes me any less of a person, to be more attracted to someone by looks than intellect. im not saying i want an air head but come on</p>
<p>Someone as smart as me (I, if you want to get technical). It's nice to have someone smart to talk to- my girlfriend's one of the few people at my school that actually understands what I mean by something being as dead as Schrodinger's cat. </p>
<p>Our physics study sessions weren't productive, though. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>UCLAri, that is quite possibly the geekiest thing I've ever heard. </p>
<p>michael_pham, I've found that intelligence and common sense are inversely related.</p>