>>24531273
I think about this a lot. It's mostly a cope taught to kids in school both to keep the skeleton-boy math whiz from kys-ing himself, and also an American predecessor to the modern Chinese model of just churning out a shit ton of STEM autists for the military/economic machine.
I was one of those caught by the "big brain small muscle better person" meme. It really frustrated me when I made it into college, and saw that the athletic and popular people in highschool were for the most part still good looking and popular, and even in the Engineering college a lot of the smartest students were also athletic, good-looking and popular.