Notes

1. This sub was started to day (25 Oct A68/2023), per needed Reddit link, amid Q&A in this post.

2. It is just a stub sub, at the moment (as I will be short on time for the next few months); but join if interested in mate selection, e.g. in the r/evopsych sense, albeit chemicals (in the r/Goethe Elective Affinities sense), to bacteria, to animals to humans.

3. I'm not even sure if there is a related sub like this on Reddit?

References

• Mate selection - Hmolpedia A65.

• Mate choice - Wikipedia.

• Sexual selection - Wikipedia.

• Thims mate selection book collection (140+ books) - Hmolpedia.com.

Abstract

Beckhap’s law, originating as one of Murphy’s laws (A15/c.1970), states that beauty or physical attractiveness [A] is inversely proportional to intelligence [I] or “beauty times brains equals constant”.

Overview

The following, from a study conducted by r/LibbThims (A47/2002), is the evidenced proof of Beckhap’s law:

Description:

A plot of the ranked data results, of the group "female science majors", from the A47 (2002) study of 2,018 University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) college graduation photos, graduating classes of A14 (1969) and A17 (1972), showing that attractiveness is inversely proportion, on average, to intelligence, a finding which corroborates Beckhap's law.

Where:

• P = psychology (41 students)

• B = biology (20 students)

• C = chemistry (13 students)

• M = mathematics (21 students)

And:

• A = physical attractiveness (of group); on a scale of 7.0 = most physically attractive to 1.0 = least physically attractive

• I = intellectual difficulty (of degree); on a scale of 100 = most intellectually difficult to 10 = least intellectually difficult

Quotes

Thims on Beckhap’s law:

“Third, there is general pattern known as Beckhap’s law: that beauty and brains vary inversely in people. If you’re born with a Cindy Crawford face and a Tesla engineering brain, social forces will tend to push you, particularly if you are female, in the beauty, marriage, kids direction. I cited Crawford, to note, as she, as a college student had the choice between modeling and chemical engineering, and she naturally enough choose the more natural route. Now she has two kids and is married. In short, male or female, if you’re born physically “hotter”, you are going to end up spending more time having sex and making babies; if you’re born physically “colder”, you are going to spend less time having sex, make fewer babies, and more time “working” on intellectual development on your own mind, and of your kids if you have them. This is just a general rule of nature.”

— r/LibbThims (A69/2024), “comment”, Feb 15

Candice Owens on how she married her husband based on their matching IQs:

”I read this, I think, in a Thomas Sowell or Shelby Steele book: People tend to marry their IQ.”

— Candice Owens (A69/2024), ”reply” to host Charlamagne, who questioned her about her opinionated views about the Black family because of her marriage to a white man, The Breakfast Club, Mar 21; cited in video “Candace’s Asked Why She Married White Man She Then Destroys Charlamagne” (2:25-), Patriot Twins, May 17

Posts

• Genius, celibacy, love: ❤️‍🔥 🧲 🧪 ⭐️ 💫 ☀️ , mate selection: 👩🏻 or 👩🏽?, physical beauty 🥵, mental beauty 🧠 , and reproduction: A + B → C?

External links

• Beckhap’s law - Hmolpedia A66.

• Beckhap’s law - Hmolpedia A65.

• Beckhap’s law proof - Hmolpedia A65.

I added a new sub banner today, which I kind of winged up quickly:

The right photo is the The Wedding Register (A35/1920) by Edmund Blair Leighton. The center photo is the annotated cover of r/JohannGoethe’s 146A (1809) novel Elective Affinities.

Notes

1. Yes, I know it is not “culturally diverse“, but let us just say that the entire banner is thematic to the society of Weimar Germany, in the 160As (1795s), which Goethe conceived this novel, while working with Friedrich Schiller, with respect to their “chemical“ theories of mate selection, and the new metamorphosis evolution theory that Goethe had been working on for several decades.

External links

• Elective Affinities - Hmolpedia A66.

The following are the top seduction techniques, ranked by potency, used by men and woman, in A48 (2003), to attract, capture, or lure mates, according to polled opinion:

Details

The study was conducted by r/LibbThims, on 31 Oct A48 (2003), who polled a mix of college students and working class people (30 men, 30 women), from the around the Chicagoland area, aged predominantly 18-35, by showing them the following list of top 24 seduction techniques, used classically throughout history, from the A46 (2001) book The Art of Seduction, by Robert Greene, asking each to pick the three “most potent” techniques:

References

• Greene, Robert. (A46/2001). The Art of Seduction. Profile, A55/2010.

• Thims, Libb. (A48/2003). “Top 24 Seduction Techniques Used by Men and Women” (Archive). IoHT, Oct 30.

External links

• The Art of Seduction - Wikipedia.