It’s a moot question. Smart is pretty.
(or maybe I just like the geek girl type)
Brains kinda manifest themselves physically, somehow. I find Condoleezza Rice more physically attractive than Paris Hilton, for example.
I’m already brilliant and ugly. It’s not as great as it sounds.
I’d be willing to try beautiful but dumb. I probably wouldn’t even understand if I were any worse off.
You might get me to stay brilliant and ugly if you threw in RICH. That would make it a tougher choice.
I win on both counts,I’m dumb AND ugly!
Hah I can almost hear your jealous murmering.
is it really so surprising when it’s a roomful of hormonal teenagers who’s being polled?
OMG I hv a ZIT!!!111!1!!! CALL 911!!!11
I’m smart and plain. It’s gotten me everything I ever wanted so far, so I see no need to change.
Pretty and stupid, for sure.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: if I’m stupid, I don’t know I am. But I’d sure as hell know I was pretty.
Hey, there’s nothing in the OP about self esteem. Take a poll of your pretty friends and see how many are happy with their looks.
If they’re dumb and pretty, is it really important how they feel about themselves? 
After watching “America’s Got Talent” tonight and seeing the girls go wild before the Elvis impersonator even sang a note, I must say if I had the choice right now I’d give up a whole lot of brains for some beauty. Shit, even the judges liked him from the get go.
You are too sweet. Thank you.
I honestly believe most of us walking around in the world are somewhere in the middle on both scales.
Beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder, but smarts can be evaluated. I never claimed lots of brains… I know better 
I’m smart enough to get by. I honestly wouldn’t want to be super smart.
I’ve received the kind of admiration that intelligent people get. I’ve also seen the kind of admiration that pretty people get.
I’d so love to try the latter.
I think that could be true about being pretty: because you’ve already got a good physical framework to work with, you strive to keep improving your looks. That could create perfectionism and after that, poor self esteem because you know you are (in your own mind) most of the way to beautiful but to yourself you keep falling short. Like, if only you were 10 pounds lighter, had a narrower nose, were taller, etc. Mirrors eventually drive you crazy and you end up almost being hit by a car because you had to whip out your compact to check your face in the middle of crossing the street. :eek: