Agree or disagree with what, exactly?
Quote: (04-28-2013 02:47 AM)InternationPlayboy Wrote:
I think this is a dupe. The one I saw had more countries as well.
Regardless. Definitely disagree. I can tell you right now the average Peruvian girl doesn't look like the one represented, and I'm willing to be most of those are far better looking than the average girl than the countries represented.
Lemmo is correct in remarking that "Averaging produces better than average faces since it eliminates extremes. Attractive=proportional." I incidentally explain this
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Arithmetically average faces are perceived as more attractive. That's why facial composites of multiple people generally look more attractive than most of their constituents.
This does not mean that average-looking girls are actually the most attractive. Arithmetically average != of average attractiveness.
I do agree, however, that there may be an issue of sample size per country and that the n of ~= 4000 is overstated and/or misrepresented, or that there is material sampling bias. I concur that an average of randomly sampled Peruvian girls would not look like that--the composite in the link looks "too" European admixed.
Populations that are very similar genetically look much different than one would expect. In particular, I have in mind the German vs. French vs. English, and Chinese vs. Taiwanese. Although one could also argue that this is an illustration of how small genetic differences could have large effect sizes.
The European composites are all very cute. The Swede and the Mediterranean ones, especially.
The Uzbek is a smokeshow.
The Japanese and Taiwanese are better than I expected, especially vis a vis similar populations like the Korean and Chinese, respectively.
I've always been bearish on SEA girls when it comes to looks, and the composites seem to corroborate that. I think they are way overrated on this forum due to the ease of attainability of Thai and Philippine girls.
The exception to my SEA bearishnesss is Vietnamese girls, but they don't come across to well in the composite either.
Ethiopian composite looks the worst out of the black Africa composites, where one would expect them to be the best.