Blogcritics Comments on Study: Curvy Women Are More Intelligent and Make Smarter Children

Comment by karen on Study: Curvy Women Are More Intelligent and Make Smarter Children

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:48:36 EDT

BTW a 'healthy' waist/hip ratio = <0.8, but curvy & ideal = 0.65-0.75 (and that is regardless of bust size).

Comment by karen on Study: Curvy Women Are More Intelligent and Make Smarter Children

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:44:18 EDT

PA Depland, not sure what you mean about pear shapes being 'unhealthy' or 'undesirable' but a pear does not have the same bust and waist measurement, it's more just a case there is less difference between waist and bust than waist and hips, for example 31-24-34 or 33-26-36....perfectly ideal and very natural for a healthy female. Yes I'm a pear and I have measurements 32-25-36...bigger on bottom than the top yes, but still a normal difference between my bust and waist and I'm certainly healthy and my husband thinks I'm desireable.

Comment by fed up on Study: Curvy Women Are More Intelligent and Make Smarter Children

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:34:59 EDT

can there be an article promoting healthy body image instead of bashing one body type over another. I do not believe that intelligence is based on body type.All men do not like the same type of women.

Comment by Vianka on Study: Curvy Women Are More Intelligent and Make Smarter Children

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:00:51 EDT

Just what we need - another stereotype for women. Now slim women are not as intelligent as chunky women? That is ridiculous! Does anybody get sick of hearing how women's bodies should look?

Comment by Diana Hartman on Study: Curvy Women Are More Intelligent and Make Smarter Children

Mon, 7 Jan 2008 14:23:32 EST

P A, the article stands corrected (see article)...you are however, most incorrect about the .7 ratio...if you'd like to discuss it further, take it up with cambridge mathematicians... a woman is not unhealthy just because she is small-breasted...

Comment by Matthew T. Sussman on Study: Curvy Women Are More Intelligent and Make Smarter Children

Mon, 7 Jan 2008 13:45:29 EST

Next up: Blindness and the effects of curvy women on adolescent boys.

Comment by P A DEPLAND on Study: Curvy Women Are More Intelligent and Make Smarter Children

Mon, 7 Jan 2008 13:38:38 EST

Evidently the article was written by a thick waisted Twiggy type (opposite from hour-glass) and it went to her head. It would take a 2.8 inch waist divided by 34 inch hips to come up with her ideal .08 ratio! A healthy female figure, from a man's point of view, would be an hour-glass shaped (34-24-34)or(36-26-36), either, yielding an ideal .7 ratio. On the other hand a .7 ratio begat from a pear shaped (24-24-34)or(26-26-36) would be classified as unhealthy and undesirable.

Comment by Diana Hartman on Study: Curvy Women Are More Intelligent and Make Smarter Children

Mon, 7 Jan 2008 12:58:51 EST

imagine a world where the dairy farmers all got together and successfully marketed milk as the number one best beverage ever and that, by comparison, "water is dry and listless" or something equally ridiculous... imagine images of milk plastered all over the place as a great thing - in movies, non-dairy ads, TV programs, you name it...because it wasn't good enough to tout their product, the dairy farmers have also gone on the rampage against water...imagine every image of water with a slanted, red line through it – when it is seen, which is rare in this scenario, compared to images of milk... now imagine a health crisis among certain demographics wherein the health of a significant percentage of the population was severely compromised because they stopped drinking water based on their belief in the dairy commercials, and instead drank milk – almost to the exclusion of any other beverage... at that point it would well take a scientific study proving the value and worth of water to get the most avid milk-only drinkers to concede... if you think this couldn't happen, take a gander at the fashion industry whose stick-thin, shapeless models have given rise to weight-obsessed children as young as four, pathological weight obsession in grown women, and eating disorders...why? because they believe(d) the ads, the images, the words, and the frequency of the thin-is-in campaign...they believed it when told no man would want them and all women would scorn them if they couldn't fit into a size 2 dress...they ignored what little imagery there was/is of the healthier, curvy, hasn't-seen-size-10-since-she-was-16 woman – because that's what they've been told and told and told to do... now that science has confirmed what the not-weight-obsessed population has always known, maybe now we can start to fast track some of those who are weight-obsessed back onto the right track...

Comment by Ruvy in Jerusalem on Study: Curvy Women Are More Intelligent and Make Smarter Children

Mon, 7 Jan 2008 12:10:15 EST

To think, They had to do a study to figure out that a sexy girl with a cute figure was healthier and more attractive than a girl who didn't have a sexy figure. Next up! A study on why water is wet!!