Beauty In The Eye Of The Android

rcswebb writes "According to this article at the BBC - Artificial intelligence experts in Fife (Scotland) have unveiled a robotic head which they say can scientifically determine how attractive women are to men."

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In a general sense, maybe

[Twintop]

One man is not attacted to the same exact things as any other man, whether it be a woman's face, eyes, legs, or other part of a woman's body. So before people start using this thing and taking it seriously (in other words PLEASE take what it says with a grain of salt, ladies...and some gentlemen too. :) ), remember this is just someting generalized to work in most cases for the masses. After all, we are human, this thing is not.

Re:In a general sense, maybe

[km790816]

I agree with you on principle. Also keep in mind that the male mind has evolved to be attracted to certain features in a woman's face as a sign of age, fertility, and good genes.

A face that is symmetrical and that does not have exaggerated features is a sign that the woman has good genes. (Exaggerated features appear when there is a lot of in-breeding.)

Large lips, large eyes, high cheek bones are all caused by higher levels of estrogen, which points to good fertility. Same reason men like large breasts and curvy hips (in general.)

Yes we are human, but we're also evolved, biological machines with some pretty well-tuned wiring to procreate.

Geometry.

[LogicFlow]

This is trivial. It's all geometry. Most noteably a semetrical face, but there's more to it than that. Width of mouth to width of nose, hips to waist, almost anything you can think of. The most common prefrences are well documented, and they are surprisingly exact. There has been a lot of work on this, it was only a matter of hooking up the specs to a camera and writing an algo to compare the two.
I really doubt hair/eye color and such mean a damn thing to it.