^That’s to address one of the potential counter-arguments that anyone may use against me.

The more probable case is that you just wanted to assure yourself that you were above the intellectual debate, however basic and uninteresting it may be to some people–probably not including yourself–because you can’t accept the likelihood that you are dumb, just like the millions of others out there who believe that they are superior when, in reality, they are just as dumb–and, in some cases, dumber than–as those that you ridicule in an attempt to prevent suicidal tendencies from getting the best of you.

Therefore, a ‘nerd’ may not necessarily have the confidence implicitly inherent in smart people.

The job with the highest IQs has consistently been found to be comedians, who, with people like Dane Cook, Daniel Tosh and above all Russell Brand, never struggle for dates, or with having a low sex drive. Richard Pryor was famous for womanising. Nerds’ problem isn’t being smart, it’s not being smart enough to not look smart.

Smart people always have and always will rule the world, but only because they look stupid enough that the average person thinks they’re ‘one of them’. To succeed in any field, a person needs intelligence and s masculine mind (not ‘be a man’, just ‘have a male brain’). Pretty much any great historical figure will score highly on these two traits. If sex is the ultimate success, then intelligence is a great asset.

One thing to consider is that “intelligence” is difficult to measure. A very pragmatic way we might measure intelligence is, the ability to leverage thought to get what you want. Assuming you want sex, then, by this definition, if you can get sex, that means you’re smarter, and if you can’t get sex, that means you’re less smart.

For example, suppose a hyperintelligent transhuman is transplanted on Earth in a human body and urgently wants to have sex. This superbeing will quickly observe and comprehend the appropriate “mating rituals”, including things like going to bars, popping your collar up, listening to Lady Gaga, etc. etc. The alien will then perform these things with great skill and get lots of sex. A naive human observer might look at the alien and think, “bah, stupid brainless jock.”

Also are the stories you read a representative sample of people’s sexual experiences in the past? Might it be that great minds who wrote about their sexual exploits could make it seem high class/literary or simply a fascinating quirk of a genius while the poor working sod who coarsely bragged about fucking a girl and a pig didn’t get his story into the annals of history?

Maybe people are just way more perverted than you expect.

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You can do a fair bit of physics in the armchair but in sociology about the best you can hope for is to make a theory seem a bit more likely than not without data.