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Study Finds the Perfect Ratio of Attractiveness
Gksksla writes "Scientists in Australia and Hong Kong have conducted a comprehensive study to discover how different body measurements correspond with ratings of female attractiveness. The study, published in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology, found that across cultural divides young, tall and long armed women were considered the most attractive."
mmm... arms...
Wasn't this already figured out by Ancient Greek mathematicians? :)
Young, tall, long armed and with huge... tracts of land.
Dewey, you fool! Your decimal system has played right into my hands!
Long arms? Give me a hourglass shaped babe with plenty of T&A, thanks. :)
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'nuff said.
Nice job.
Next up, a study on perfect female breast size.
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God, yet another insignificant study without enough information.
96 models, and a sample set of 94 (plus some number in the Hong Kong group).
At least it leads to their site, which appears that it may do a better job at getting a good sample group.
It, of course, can't take into account moods, personal history, etc. Like, the most beautiful woman in the survey could look just like my exgirlfriend/exwife. It's very likely I'd immediately score her lower.
Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.
Only if she's 5'3". Baby got back.
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
Slender-ish arms are attractive and tend to look longer (although they are normally not actually longer).
Arm shape is one thing I look at to determine how healthy a woman is. Chubby arms on a thin woman indicate a potential fat woman in disguise. Too thin of arms indicate a potential eating disorder, drug problem, or who knows (ie. mental issues if true).
I don't go by these alone but they do shape my initial impression.
How long have these arms to be?
Long enough to hand me a beer over from the fridge?
one of these days they will stop trying to figure out what makes some women more attractive than others and will finally start figuring out how to get everyone one or two of those.
You can't handle the truth.
I usually fuck her if she's cute, friendly, comfortable, and willing. Failing the willing part, we get flirty; failing the comfortable part, things get weird and we dismiss the idea. Failing the comfortable/willing parts both, we usually just wind up being friends. If she turns out to be a bitch, I just ignore her because no amount of unbelievable hotness is going to cover up a giant cunt. Sure I'm not into chubby chicks; but there's plenty of skinny, curvy, short, and somewhat long girls out there that catch my eye. There's no real pattern: I like her or I don't, and if she's got a smoking body but her aura says "LOL I AM ENTITLED TO EVERYTHING SO FUCK YOU ALL KNEEL BEFORE ME" I'm not going to notice her.
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Awesome. A useless study that tells us what men already knew (and women). Can I get a Weekend Update Really?! segment for this?
Personally, I like short girls for some reason. I don't know why, but I've always had a thing for girls that are 5'4 or below. I think it's because the short ones are usually zesty packets of spunk and attitude. Nothing like short-woman syndrome to make a girl the right balance of crazy and fierce.
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Why do I get the feeling this study was conceived purely as a way to get a bunch of nerds into a room with some hot chicks and to cover their leering as "scientific curiosity."
Pics or it isn't true!
That sucks for Hayden Panettiere!
Seriously though, tall does not appeal to me (nor just very short) but in this 'study' it would appear that 'tall' is relative. The bit about long arms is a mystery to me. Long as in orang utan or long as in not short and stubby? Or something in between. We need pictures!
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Sir Mix-A-Lot who said, "My anaconda don't want none unless you got buns hun!" and 36-24-36 only if she's 5' 3"
is what the boys want, and what those pipestem arms and little waist whisper.
Was this survey performed outside a movie theatre after a showing of Avatar by any chance?
apparently there isnt just one editor a /. OR he has a very short attention span: http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/09/27/1913205/This-Is-a-News-Website-Article-About-a-Scientific-Paper
Dont link TFA, link TFP. The. Fucking. Paper.
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I think tall, short-armed women or short, long-armed women would look kind of odd.
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How much money did they spend to discover that people find women that resemble models to be attractive????
Sounds like good news for female boxers?
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"...found that across cultural divides young, tall and long armed women were considered the most attractive."
Get out! Men don't like old, short, stubby-armed women?
Sacre-bleu!
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Actually Dave has already figured out the optimal formula for calculating and ranking a woman's beauty.
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...and it is impossible to be untruthful.
"The study...found that across cultural divides young, tall and long armed women were considered the most attractive."
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This thread is worthless without pics!
Subjects chosen from Chinese women, observed by Australian men and women...with a control group from Hong Kong...
This is a very common topic in social psychology experiments. Many that are published fall prey to an error of calling the example selected most to be 'attractive'. It's more correct to say that the most common answer is the most common opinion of attractiveness. In the press to prove their point, they ignore the fact that a less common answer is also an opinion of attractiveness, just to fewer people. Just because more guys like the hard, bony ones with corners so sharp they bruise you and threaten to poke holes in the water bed doesn't mean some don't consider the softer, more squeezable ones to be attractive.
And while you're getting your 'fat chick' jokes ready to throw, keep in mind that the less likely a guy is to get a girl at all, the more likely he is to adopt an attractiveness standard in line with the majority (so he can lie as much as possible) but to an even greater degree (so he can better lies than the other guys do do). He might as well claim that's his preference since he's not likely to get any sort, and will take advantage of any chance to toss his artificial preference out for others to see, expecting them to take his preference as a history. Yes, there's an awful lot of this attractiveness research done, and only some of it tends to reach erroneous conclusions.
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How true. For me it's the eyes that tell wether she's a nice girl or a bitch, and I'm not interested in living with a constant headache.
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Missing from the study is the impact of knee sharpness on perceived beauty standard.
Long arms? Give me a hourglass shaped babe with plenty of T&A, thanks. :)
Hourglass+T+A does not preclude long arms.
my wife is: able to stop traffic, blonde ,6' tall, 6'2" wingspan, 145lbs, elite athlete, a PE, LEED AP.
you all can bow down before ME.
i bow down before--in front of, facing--her.
And yet some people still find Snookie attractive. I know, it boggles my mind too.
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Not one mention of symetry or Vetruvian (spelling?) measurements was made in this article. The study was all Chinese women. The study group was all men from western cultures. I can't even believe this was published.
We needed a study to find this out. Well, the people large enough to need their own post-codes will holler that unrealistic goals are being manufactured. /Don't eat crap. //See rule one.
I'm not interested in cuddling with a witch from hell, much less sticking it in her. Much less marrying her lol wtf?
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After all, who's going to tell armed women that they're unattractive.
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As someone who admires ladies in corsets, I've known about the waist to hip ratio for years :-)
What is interesting is this may be inbred, because that ratio has been found to indicate the most fertile women.
"Our results showed consistent attractiveness ratings by men and women and by Hong Kong Chinese and Australian raters, suggesting considerable cross cultural consistency," concluded Brooks. "In part this may be due to shared media experiences.
Summary to the "study"
Make some silhouettes of a variety of Chinese and Australian women. Show them to some Chinese and Australian men and ask them to rate them. Conclude that the results are significant across all cultures and are genetically induced.
Who pays these fucking idiots?
I would agree until I found out they wear colored contact lenses and use makeup to manipulate the parts surrounding the eyes and they can find a lot of the bitch within.
Now I just pretend I'm a family man looking at a sports car. I will test drive them, if they are too slow, I take it back to the lot, if they are too fast, the same. If they need their valves adjusted every 10 miles, well, you get the hint. I'm just glad that Google Voice allows me to block numbers altogether.
I've always had a thing for girls that are 5'4 or below. I think it's because the short ones are usually zesty packets of spunk
/shudder
if...
girls that are 5'4 or below == short ones
and
short ones == zesty packets of spunk
That would mean that you just said:
I've always had a thing for zesty packets of spunk.
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Shocking!! They had to do a study to find out men prefer young looking women?!?
There is a reason Steely Dan doesn't sing a song titled "Hey 39".
There are also plenty of good biological and evolutionary reasons for this.
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The statistics are averaged across cultures they sampled. It's about as meaningful as the tendency of storks to build their nests in chimneys.
You gotta look for thick ankles too...that is a pretty sure sign she's gonna have good potential to blimp on ya.
Thick wrists are a decent sign too...but thick ankles, you gotta watch for those!!
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She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
It seems to me the scope of this study was too limited. What they've defined as attractive seems dictated by celebrity culture. This means excessively thin women who then have to compensate by getting plastic surgery, especially in the US. My impression of many European, excluding England, and South American celebrities is that they're far healthier-looking than Americans.
Hell, look at Japanese illustrations and, excluding some fetishes, the distilled attractive female is generally well-endowed. I don't mean necessarily having large breasts, but nice hips and a fairly curvaceous body. And from personal, admittedly anecdotal, evidence guys are more immediately turned on by a woman with more shape, even if she trends towards being heavy, than they would ever be by someone who's thin.
Unfortunately, the ideal nowadays, for women, seems to be sickeningly thin. And it's generally quite bad in Asia. I'm convinced there's a serious anorexia problem being overlooked out there.
The ideal figure must be aspirational. Looking at classical paintings women were always depicted as a bit heavyset. Generally, it was a considered a sign of wealth given that most didn't have the means to eat so well. Today, in the developed world who doesn't have access to plenty of food. Hell, people who are often considered poor manage to be overweight. So the goal now is to be thin. In some cases it's even been associated with wealth, the argument being that the poor don't have access to good food or have the luxury of being able to work out.
I almost thought that i am the only one to wait for the mythical bus full of naughty long legged large breasted swedish chicks that will break down just in front of my house one day ...
They could have saved a lot of time and man-hours and just asked me.
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Considering the pervasiveness of American culture and movies, the statement about "across cultures" is meaningless.
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...and lots of orange hair.
An orangutang!!!
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found that across cultural divides young, tall and long armed women were considered the most attractive
Not me.
I like the short, fat, ugly bitches with T-rex arms.
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Angelina looks like Gollum. I'll take Sexy Patty Cake.
I could have saved so much money for them had they just asked me. I would have shown them the victoria secrets catalog and told them, THIS is what makes women sexy and attractive. Seriously, that or live in brazil, one of those 2.
I remember this from a few months ago ... the models were horrifying, grossly misshapen for the most part. Only the skinny ones with longer arms even looked like female humans. Leading to their inevitable conclusion. I figured at the time they simply were too incompetent or cheap to hire somebody who could create the reasonable human figures needed for a real study of attractiveness. I doubt such a shit study actually discovered anything at all.