&gt; After all, there&#x27;s no logical reason attractive women can&#x27;t be engineers.<p>The absence of a <i>logical reason</i> does not mean that there is not a <i>popular perception</i> of an inverse correlation between physical attractiveness and intelligence (and this isn&#x27;t entirely restricted to one sex.)<p>I mean, unless we know the person in the lift was an idealized Vulcan, the absence of a <i>logical reason</i> to believe something that is implied to be the basis of a statement they made -- especially something where there is ample evidence of a common perception in the broader culture -- is not a reason to dismiss the possibility that they might have actually believed it and had that belief motivate the statement.