I'm doomed.

The type of girls I have ever sought out are not only attractive, but the kind of girls who are intelligent and can carry both light and serious conversations. I have always thought that in this day and age, where gender discrimination is significantly lower and equal opportunities are enforced, that there will be more fish out there in the sea that fall into the intelligent category.

I still have a hard time finding girls who are both attractive and intelligent. Partly because I also attach additional requirements to the mix, such as being nice, considerate, non-smoking, somewhat athletic, etc. As if all that wasn't hard enough, I recently learned something that makes searching for the "perfect" partner near impossible.

According to a new study by psychologist John Philippe Rushton from the University of Western Ontario, women on average fall short of men's intelligence by an intelligent quotient of four points. Now how am I supposed to find that girl who is just as intelligent as me?!?

Now, before you get up in arms about this, I will have you know that I disagree with his conclusion. I would much rather believe that men on average have a higher intelligence in certain aspects of the cognitive world, such as spatial ability, and women on average have a leg up on men in verbal skills. Does that necessarily mean one is smarter than the other? I don't think so. I think there may be some sort of a flaw in the study, especially when the study was based on just 17 and 18 year old boys and girls, using the SAT results taken at a single university.

After thinking it through, I can now breathe a sigh of relief. I am not really doomed. =)