Avatars Used For Australian Online Sex Appeal Study

An anonymous reader writes "Australian scientists are seeking volunteers online to help them better understand sexual attraction. At a specially created website — www.bodylab.biz — users can go online and make their own ratings of computer-generated avatar images of men and women of greatly varying shapes, sizes, and proportions. The bodyLab team will analyse and compile the results and each month will cull about half of the images — those that are least popular — and virtually 'breed' new body shapes from parent avatars with features rated as most attractive by people taking part in the experiment. Over time, the scientists hope thousands of users will help them work through six or more generations of avatars to narrow down the special combinations of features that make up the 'ideal' body — although they're keeping an open mind about whether several combinations will emerge."

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[Itninja]

...users can go online and make their own ratings of computer-generated avatar images of men and women

So start with adult population of Australia
Then, Subtract adults who have jobs, families, hobbies, and no time for silly things like this
From that, subtract the single college student who has any wisp of maturity or enlightement
From that, subtract old-timers with no interest in the Interwebz
So who's left? Alcoholics, the unemployable, angry loners...?