Beauty and intelligence may or may not- be related

Kevin Denny

No 200802, Working Papers from Geary Institute, University College Dublin

Abstract: In a recent paper, Kanazawa and Kovar (2004) assert that given certain empirical regularities about assortative mating and the heritability of intelligence and beauty, that it logically follows that more intelligent people are more beautiful. It is argued here that this “theorem” is false and that the evidence does not support it.

Pages: 10 pages
Date: 2008-02-04
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