"The researchers examined data collected from the Wisconsin…

"The researchers examined data collected from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, a long-term study which has tracked about 10,000 men and women from 1957 to 2011. They found that a woman’s physical attractiveness predicted her husband’s intelligence. In other words, more physically attractive women tended to have more intelligent husbands.

"In addition, physical attractiveness was even more strongly associated with a husband’s intelligence among women who were more intelligent.

"A man’s physical attractiveness, on the other hand, did not predict the intelligence of his wife."