random difference of opinion

The mathematician turned biologist Jacob Bronowski writes in The Ascent of Man,

There is evidence now that women marry men who are intellectually like them, and men marry women who are intellectually like them.

This is in clear contrast to Freud’s claim of an inability among modern males to feel intellectual respect and sexual passion for the same woman. That is, unless men marry women who are intellectually like them but are fooled by appearances or passion or their own pompousness?