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Re:Short fat engineers are undervalued by centimeter on Friday February 12, 2021 @07:26PM (#26120261)
No, I don't think this reasoning holds. What is intuitively considered attractive is itself an evolved trait, so as a meta-evolutionary strategy it almost certainly selects for otherwise desirable traits.
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Re:Short fat engineers are undervalued by wutbrodo on Saturday February 13, 2021 @02:00PM (#26125763)
In this thread, "attractive" is being used as shorthand for "physically attractive": it was first introduced in response to a comment talking about height.

Also, while intelligence is per se attractive to some degree, it's also mediated through downstream effects like a higher likelihood of financial/resource success.

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