attraction or idiocracy

brains/beauty?

I'd have to point out two things.
One: men (and women) will go for the dumb one that tans well, or some other such meaningless physical element first. Especially if there are no other criteria involved (ie, if most everyone is stupid and boring anyway). It's rather important to have both, but most people will take looks and will assume that other features come with them or will overlook the vast flaws that everyone has because they're hooked up with someone smoldering hot.

Second: the conclusion that intelligence is prized is not surprising. Again, conducting studies to show things that I figured out long ago, thanks but I don't need help making these conclusions. In general those 'quick hookups' are based on being able to make oneself appealing quickly, which looks certainly helps, but things like being funny or witty help just as much. The issue I take is with the last paragraph in the original link: "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,""
Think about that for a second. Let it sink in. Yes, that's right, they concluded that there are people who will find EVERYTHING attractive. Or is it rather that they don't find anything attractive.. I think that suggests more about that individual and the prospective need for relationship supports than it does about some general trend for finding hideous/boring/stupid people attractive. Even 'attractive enough' as a low standard really doesn't do much. And besides, this seems contrary to any evolutionary principle to give people who have no brain, no looks and no talents some hope that they too can breed. This reminds me of the Carlin skit with 'ugly people' being renamed 'those with severe appearance deficits'. Whatever that means.

Go get something to use in the battle to reproduce scumbags and quit interacting with each other. Start to move up the gene pool in other words instead of wallowing in the filth of humanity. The rest of us could use the help.