Looking good mate

It is a matter of recorded fact that humans are rapidly gaining in average intelligence as measured by IQ tests.

This is ascribed to improving education and less damaging emotional development.

A lesser known fact is that good looking people have better opportunities in life, all other things being equal.

Especially for men, good looks improve things such as average salaries and the rate of promotions in the workplace.

The hypothesis is that other people collectively (& erroneously) associate good looks with other characteristics such as leadership potential and intelligence.

For women, the benefits of being good looking aren’t as great when it comes to career prospects because these benefits are offset somewhat by the ‘dumb blonde’ myth.

It also postulated that in times past other characteristics such as strength and durability were equally important but as we have engineered risk out of our daily environment these factors have dropped in perceived value.

It all makes me wonder if, similarly to IQ, whether our race is slowly becoming better looking because better looking people have more resources and hence more likely to reproduce?

Or are the less fortunate, including the not so good looking, breeding at a greater rate in revolt, and sending us backwards?

It would be unlikely that we are static in this regards.

And it is said that beauty is subjective. The data suggests otherwise. Who would have guessed?