Study States Women with Big Hips Have Higher IQ’s
Women with small waists and big hips also have big IQs, a new U.S. study has found.
A study of 16,000 women determined those with hourglass figures were more intelligent than their counterparts with round or straight bodies, The Sunday Times of London reported. Curvier women also tended to have more intelligent children, possibly because omega3 fatty acids are stored in their hips, the British newspaper said. Skinny women, or those whose fat deposits are around their waists do not have such deposits. The study, to be published in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior this week, may explain earlier findings that men prefer women with smaller waists than hips even if they are compared to slimmer women, said the study’s authors at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of California, Santa Barbara.
It may also help break down the stereotype that attractive women are not intelligent, sexual and relationship psychologist Paula Hall told the newspaper. Copyright 2007 by United Press International
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Here is my take
I have to wonder, what inspired someone to conduct this study and why? Personally, I don’t buy it. But it gained momentum when the creditable news wires picked it up and ran with it. I don’t think the posterior of women are accurate indicators of their intelligence for the simple fact alone there are too many variables that play into the make up of the size of the human hips and waist. There’s oreos and Hagen Daz, chips, and sour cream, exercise has been know to reduce the size, and let’s not forget the sit all day long theory. There are theories bases on ethnicity, parential inherited genes, as well as artificial enhancers.
This appears to be loose based rhetoric linking intelligence to the size of the human derrier. As a matter of a fact it stops short of saying the contents of the brain plays a part in the growth of the posterior.
So, having said that, before we start selecting seemingly intelligent spouses, and employees, as well as academic teammates based on this study, let’s be real, this doesn’t really pan out when you look at the physical facts surrounding the data. At least not for me.
How about you?