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?

  • Hyphlosion@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    4 days ago

    I’m currently neither. Since I’m already used to not being intelligent, I’d go with being beautiful. Then I could always work to increase my intelligence if I wanted.

  • KnightOfOldEmpire@lemmy.ml
    6·
    6 days ago

    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.

  • gazter@aussie.zone
    6·
    6 days ago

    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?

  • HelixDab2@lemm.ee
    5·
    6 days ago

    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.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      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!

      • HelixDab2@lemm.ee
        3·
        6 days ago

        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.

        • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          3·
          6 days ago

          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!”.

  • RiverGhost@slrpnk.net
    5·
    6 days ago

    How about slightly below both but with some solid executive functioning and 0 mood disorders? I’ll take that.

  • Enkrod@feddit.org
    4·
    6 days ago

    So… the genie offers to make me look better by increasing my looks to only slightly below average? Noice!

  • That_Devil_Girl@lemmy.ml
    5·
    7 days ago

    It’s lonely being intelligent. Maybe I’m just in the wrong social circles.

    I like to read books at my construction job when we’re not busy. Yet none of my coworkers have read a book since early middle school, and they only skimmed it to half-ass a book report. I can’t talk to them about anything except work.

    I’ve never been beautiful my whole life. I’d give myself a 4 out of 10, a little less than average. I never really cared about my looks, I haven’t worn makeup in ages.

    I’d be interested in giving beauty a trial run, see if it suits me better than intelligence.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago

      There are definitely intelligent people in the trade jobs, but the overall mindset is completely different, and a certain lack of soft skills that get developed in other types of careers.

  • MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    6 days ago

    Clever but slightly below average attractiveness? Yes, I’ll take that. It would be a double upgrade for me.

  • BigBenis@lemmy.world
    3·
    6 days ago

    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.

  • whaleross@lemmy.world
    3·
    6 days ago

    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.