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would you mind dating someone who is less intelligent than you?

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I wouldn't date someone who was dumb, not as smart is fine but not dumb. I have tried to hang out with a couple girls recently who were freaking morons, exactly like talking to a brick wall.
 
It's pretty obvious we get along best with people whose IQs most closely match our own, and studies have confirmed this. I'd date someone within a certain range either way, so technically you could say I'd date someone less intelligent than myself... but I wouldn't date someone far below me, no.
 
It's one of the reasons I don't really have a girlfriend at the moment. It's really pretty difficult to find a female in my age group (18-20) to have an intelligent conversation with but at the same time find them attractive physically.
 
As far as intelligence goes, I don't know how to measure that. Here is my best effort.
I would prefer someone that is at least on my own academic level, I am not saying that they have to have an advanced degree in a science, but they should be reasonably well read and are capable of inductive and deductive reasoning (Hell, I'd probably settle for them knowing the difference!) They must be willing to think, and be interested in expanding their knowledge. They must also be somewhere near my maturity level.

Lets face it, as a guy I pretty much have a built in disadvantage in the dating game, so I better not discount 2/3's of the field out of hand. After all, I have dated girls that are, well, um... I'll say vapid to be nice, and it was not all that bad.
 
I'll give then plus or minus one standard deviation and then I'm not really interested anymore.

Actually, I probably wouldn't cap the plus side of the equation.
 
I've always wanted someone who is my intellectual equal. My wife is a little naive at times and possibly a tad gullible but she's very smart.

Me=Happy! 🙂:heart:
 
I have yet to find anyone who will date me. So I guess I must be pretty low in whatever areas women choose who they will associate with.
 
Being smart or at least quite sharp is really a must. I like discussing things with people, not explaining everything to them.
I was talking to someone recently and they are graduating as a mechanical engineer soon. I am not an engineer, however I was still over their head in some aspects of their respective field and it made me cry a little inside. And no, they weren't very sharp either. Conversation was dull to say the least 🙁
 
Isn't every heterosexual male pretty much required to date someone less intelligent than himself... 😉
 
i dated a real clown when i was in college. it felt like i was having conversations with someone who was older than me but was still mentally learning in high school.

a third friend and i once had a few lengthy conversations about computers, and he'd say something completely irrelevant to our current conversation, thinking that it was actaully useful and that he had valuable input. (sadly, no). when we'd get onto more advanced topics, he couldn't understand what we were talking about and nodded his head, pretending that he had a clue what was going on. it was shocking to the two of us, since this guy worked as a network consultant but lacked of knowledge in anything and everything networking 😛

it was worse when he sent me emails where his grammar skills were of a third-grade level. he was a master at run-on sentences.

in the end, he obviously wasn't for me.

when i dated smarter guys, i felt a lot more intellectually stimulated, which is something i realized i wanted out of a relationship.

right now, i'm married to someone who is smarter than me in many ways but is also of equal intelligence in other ways. i think it's the best balance. 🙂
 
Hey there, good lookin'. You look like you might be qualified to be my girlfriend. Take a few minutes and fill out this IQ test and I'll get back to you.
 
i would mind and unfortunately i am with someone less intelligent 🙁

she is a really nice girl and she's cute and fun but just not the quickest of cats... its frustrating sometimes but nobodys perfect right
 
Met a pretty hot chick, but she was just too dumb for me. She really wanted to have some fun that night, and I just went home. Haven't talked to her since!
 
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