One of my roommates keep saying how she only wants to end up with a man who is smarter than her. But she actually means "books smart", as far as I can tell. She has great intuition when it comes to people and she 'reads' them very accurately (undertanding their emotions even when hidden, the motives behind what they were doing, stuff like that). In my eyes, that's awefully smart (but then she disagrees). I guess what I'm trying to say is that in whatever one person is better than the other, it's highly likely that the other person is better than the first one in something else.
[Edit: which is exactly what ita said, only much longer, clumsier and includes my roommate.]
Then again, I don't think I should post about these matters. The last guy I blind-dated (who saw the world very differently than me. So differently that at more than one time I was wondering why on earth does he still want to continue seeing me) confessed, when we talked and decided that this is not working, that the only reason he continued this not-really-a-relationship was because he thought I was smart. And the only reason he thought that was because once, when the conversation turned to some CS coding algorithm (for whatever reason that I cannot possibly imagine now), I understood what he described, while his students rarely did. Which meant not that I was smart, but that I had a couple of CS courses under my belt. So maybe I don't know what these things mean anymore.