New Study: Hot Girls Want To Randomly Hook-Up With Nerds

Not everyone wants a dumb jock, even if it is just for a one-night stand. That’s the groundbreaking finding of a new study of college students.
 

Led by Mark Prokosch, an evolutionary psychologist at Elon University in North Carolina, the study had women watch videos of 15 college men performing tasks like reading the news, explaining why they make the ideal date and revealing their thoughts on the discovery of life on Mars. The guys also threw a Frisbee to show off their athleticism and took a quantitative test of verbal intelligence. Nothing gets women’s engines revved quite like a stimulating discussion of Mars followed by some Frisbee on the quad.
 

The 200 participating women then rated each man on the basis of intelligence, attractiveness, creativity and appeal for short-term and long-term relationships. The results shocked the researchers, who also came from UC Davis. ABC News reports:

As for picking a bed-mate, the men’s actual smartness proved a reliable indicator of their appeal for both brief hook-ups and serious relationships – which came as something of a surprise. Other studies have suggested that, for women anticipating short-term relationships, a man’s braininess isn’t foremost in their minds.

In fact, says Prokosch, women want the best of both worlds: brains and brawn. Really? Really, that’s what these researchers presumably spend tons of money to find out? Ask any shmuck who’s been dumped and he could tell you the same thing. But it has added weight when it comes from a guy with a Ph.D. I guess. That way, ABC can authoritatively say something like this:

So in a perfect world, women want a Nobel prize winner with movie-star looks.

However, in a world of limited resources, not every woman gets what she wants, and some are bound to fall for ugly, unintelligent and uncreative men. "There's always other people out there that find everything attractive," Prokosch says.

So, don't feel bad if your guy is a busted, brainless mimbo... it's just science.