Why Being Smart Won't Get You Laid

Being smart, pragmatic, and unscrupulous will get you laid quite a bit. I can't, and don't want to, figure out the last part.

simply earn a ton of money, and your prospects to get laid will suddenly increase

Its all about emotions

Frankly, there's an opportunity here: make a dating site just for smart people. Don't just ask about people's alma mater, ask for their GPA and major. Don't just let people say what they do, ask what their employer and title is. Ask for SAT, GRE, GMAT, LSAT, whatever other scores.

Then let your users screen on the stuff that they use as a proxy for smart. We all have different definitions for smart; just try to accommodate as many of them as possible. Women complain all the time about having to act dumber to find a man because the dumb men are the ones who ask them out.

The title infuriates me. Such arrogant, clueless, priveleged, rich-kid bullshit. He's not talking about smart people - he's talking about academic overachievers. Going to Harvard isn't the same thing as being smart. I knew plenty of kids in my high school who went on to Ivy League schools. Very few of them were remarkably intelligent. All were remarkably dilligent and remarkably obedient. Dilligence is a wonderful quality; obedience I personally do not find very useful.

Anyway, the rest of the article is beneath criticism, just wanted to object to the sloppy logic in the title.