The "Average" of womens faces from different countries
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WhiteLight
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Lol.. i read this.. anything to drive traffic
did they happen to shoot every single woman in each country?
if not, the word 'average' becomes inconsequential
unlike statistics, faces are unique unless of course they are twins, triplets & the like
plus, they seem to have 'South India' & 'India' as two separate entities
did they happen to shoot every single woman in each country?
if not, the word 'average' becomes inconsequential
unlike statistics, faces are unique unless of course they are twins, triplets & the like
plus, they seem to have 'South India' & 'India' as two separate entities
Don Kuykendall_RIP
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Bob Blaylock
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This is indeed interesting, but I find myself wanting much more data before I think I can even think of trying to understand what it means.
If these were mere numbers, instead of images, reduced to a single average number for each country, I'd want, also, to see the standard deviations and the outliers, at the very least. And certainly to know the sample size; and by what criteria samples were selected for inclusion in the analysis in the first place.
It stood out right away to me, looking at these images, that as subjective as attractiveness is, all of them seem to me to be well above average as far as attractiveness; even those that are composed predominantly of certain races that I generally find significantly less attractive than most others. This makes me want to suspect that only women who were judged to be attractive were included; though alternatively, I can see a possibility that various traits that might make a women appear unattractive might vary in different directions such that enough of them in the sample will cancel each other out, producing an average that conforms well to whatever low-level programming is included in men's brains to represent what we consider attractive. I wonder, if you were to perform such a process using only the faces of women who were somehow judged to be unattractive, if the result would be an image that most men would find considerably more attractive than the individual images that went into it; it seems very possible to me, when I think about it.
The standard deviations and outliers would be interesting to see here. Too bad they didn't include the United States, where, as ethically diverse as we are, the standard deviations and outliers would be much wider from the average than they would be in a place that is much more ethnically homogenous. I want to think of Sweden as such a place; I imagine it being predominantly populated by blond, blue-eyed Caucasians who look very much like Hitler's notion of the “Aryan master race”; or any of the small Asian countries, where I imagine the population to all be of a very similar Asian ethnic type.
If these were mere numbers, instead of images, reduced to a single average number for each country, I'd want, also, to see the standard deviations and the outliers, at the very least. And certainly to know the sample size; and by what criteria samples were selected for inclusion in the analysis in the first place.
It stood out right away to me, looking at these images, that as subjective as attractiveness is, all of them seem to me to be well above average as far as attractiveness; even those that are composed predominantly of certain races that I generally find significantly less attractive than most others. This makes me want to suspect that only women who were judged to be attractive were included; though alternatively, I can see a possibility that various traits that might make a women appear unattractive might vary in different directions such that enough of them in the sample will cancel each other out, producing an average that conforms well to whatever low-level programming is included in men's brains to represent what we consider attractive. I wonder, if you were to perform such a process using only the faces of women who were somehow judged to be unattractive, if the result would be an image that most men would find considerably more attractive than the individual images that went into it; it seems very possible to me, when I think about it.
The standard deviations and outliers would be interesting to see here. Too bad they didn't include the United States, where, as ethically diverse as we are, the standard deviations and outliers would be much wider from the average than they would be in a place that is much more ethnically homogenous. I want to think of Sweden as such a place; I imagine it being predominantly populated by blond, blue-eyed Caucasians who look very much like Hitler's notion of the “Aryan master race”; or any of the small Asian countries, where I imagine the population to all be of a very similar Asian ethnic type.
Don Kuykendall_RIP
RIP :(
They are all beautiful.
This explains a little: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Averageness