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<blockquote data-quote="Cultural Refugee" data-source="post: 15669" data-attributes="member: 17030">Well, it would take a while to explain why I want high IQ on a woman (let's call the absolute minimum 130, but from what I've seen the women I like are more in the range of 137-145 let's say [there are quite a few proxies that reliably indicate certain scores]). It comes from certain idiosyncratic preferences I have in my friendships and social relationships and in my life. Yes, maybe 99% of high IQ women aren't any good for a serious relationship, and for the reasons people have given. But overall, intelligence is the single most important trait for me on a woman (and the rarest). This does not necessarily need to be the case for other men. However, I feel very bad when smart men marry dumb women, as these smart men will have kids who are likely to be significantly less intelligent than them (especially if the dumb woman doesn't have recent high IQ ancestors in her family).I don't make girls take IQ tests, I just know that any girl I've liked in my life has a high IQ. I meet a girl I like in EE, and later discover she attended one of the toughest university departments of one of the toughest universities in the world (MIT level). Anyway, this is a hard position to explain, and I know it goes against the consensus on this forum (like many other positions I hold) but it's a position I hold very strongly for myself.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cultural Refugee, post: 15669, member: 17030"] Well, it would take a while to explain why I want high IQ on a woman (let's call the absolute minimum 130, but from what I've seen the women I like are more in the range of 137-145 let's say [there are quite a few proxies that reliably indicate certain scores]). It comes from certain idiosyncratic preferences I have in my friendships and social relationships and in my life. Yes, maybe 99% of high IQ women aren't any good for a serious relationship, and for the reasons people have given. But overall, intelligence is the single most important trait for me on a woman (and the rarest). This does not necessarily need to be the case for other men. However, I feel very bad when smart men marry dumb women, as these smart men will have kids who are likely to be significantly less intelligent than them (especially if the dumb woman doesn't have recent high IQ ancestors in her family). I don't make girls take IQ tests, I just know that any girl I've liked in my life has a high IQ. I meet a girl I like in EE, and later discover she attended one of the toughest university departments of one of the toughest universities in the world (MIT level). Anyway, this is a hard position to explain, and I know it goes against the consensus on this forum (like many other positions I hold) but it's a position I hold very strongly for myself. [/QUOTE]

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