“In a new study, both male and female subjects were able to accurately evaluate the intelligence of men simply by viewing photographs of their faces.

While many avow that you can’t judge a book by its cover, researchers Karel Kleisner, Veronika Chvátalová, and Jaroslav Flegr, all based out of Charles University in the Czech Republic, showed that if that book is a man, you probably can.

For the study, which is published in PLoS ONE, 80 science students from Charles University — 40 men and 40 women — took an in-depth exam to gauge their IQ and were subsequently photographed with neutral face expressions. Another 160 participants assessed the photographs, judging the subjects’ attractiveness and intelligence on a scale of 1 (the highest ranking) to 7 (lowest ranking).”* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

*Read more here from Ross Pomeroy / Real Clear Science:
http://www.realclearscience.com/journal_club/2014/04/11/if_he_looks_stupid_he_probably_is_108592.html