Comments on: New facial attractiveness study https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/01/new-facial-attractiveness-stud/ Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:58:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Pierce R. Butler https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/01/new-facial-attractiveness-stud/#comment-543690 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:58:03 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/01/new-facial-attractiveness-stud/#comment-543690 Interesting but (as usual for this sort of experiment) the conclusions are over-generalized.

Just to pick the first question that came to my eternally-bemused-by-women mind: among this small sample of (apparently) Penn State students, what was the range of variation in their reactions to the differently-presented photographs?

]]> By: nails https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/01/new-facial-attractiveness-stud/#comment-543689 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:26:18 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/01/new-facial-attractiveness-stud/#comment-543689 what the crap? Lab partner vs date? I don’t know why going on a date/being in a lab would do anything specific to how faces are being evaluated.

]]> By: The Ligar https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/01/new-facial-attractiveness-stud/#comment-543688 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:04:50 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/01/new-facial-attractiveness-stud/#comment-543688 I thought it was big feet? Now it’s noses? Oy! My plastic surgeon can’t keep up with the trends!

]]> By: Coturnix https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/01/new-facial-attractiveness-stud/#comment-543687 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:00:43 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/01/new-facial-attractiveness-stud/#comment-543687 Amen!

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/01/new-facial-attractiveness-stud/#comment-543686 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:23:41 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/01/new-facial-attractiveness-stud/#comment-543686 Well the nose kind of gives good signals in both areas, of sexual prowess and overall goodness.

]]> By: Catharine https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/01/new-facial-attractiveness-stud/#comment-543685 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:17:32 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/01/new-facial-attractiveness-stud/#comment-543685 I don’t know…for me it’s all about the nose. The bigger the better. And Bora is obviously the *only* person on the planet that I can tolerate looking at day after day, year after year, and so on.

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