Study: Looks Matter Less To Women Than They Do To Men

On the female side, I’d say we consider more physical types attractive than men (luckily for them). On the male, a distinction needs to be made between sexy and beauty, as they can be very different.

Chateau Heartiste

Once again, ❤science❤ has entered, stage right, as a supporting cast member of Chateau Heartiste’s magnum opus. Once again, you won’t be led astray if you embrace CH observations as your own. You could say there’s a Heartiste Rule in effect at this happy hurting ground: 80% of keen-eyed CH lessons drawn from field experience are in short order confirmed by empirical rigor. The remaining 20% either await scientific vindication, or are too nuanced to mimic in the laboratory without great difficulty or unethical experimental tactics.

The latest salvo from science supports (right on cue!) the knowledge contained within a Heartistian Horcrux that the sexes perceive looks differently and are, as a result, affected by the physical attractiveness of the opposite sex differently.

In a series of interesting experiments measuring selective attention for beautiful people, it was discovered that,

When we strained our subjects’ attentional capacities, we found exactly what…

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2 responses to “Study: Looks Matter Less To Women Than They Do To Men

  1. DES – you’re a chick? How old are you? 35-39? 40-44? 45-49? 50-54? And what part of the country are you in? NE, Mid Atlantic, SE, MW, SW, Pac NW?

    PS: And how badly overweight are you?

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