MetaFilter posts tagged with attractiveness

Your Looks and Your Inbox

gman — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:24:13 -0800

"This week we will be confronting a fact that, by definition, haunts the average online dater: no matter how much time you spend polishing your profile, honing your IM banter, and perfecting your message introductions, it’s your picture that matters most." (Previously 1 2 3)

The Beauty Race

monospace — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:00:08 -0800

Researchers have found that beautiful women have more children than their plainer counterparts and that a higher proportion of those children are female. Those daughters, once adult, also tend to be attractive and so repeat the pattern.

Technology? Aye-Aye, sir.

dfowler — Fri, 15 Apr 2005 07:44:33 -0800

Research suggests parents give unattractive children less attention, so I’m packing up my Minority Report computer interface (in development for US Military) and that Bomb-sniffing polymer , and Aye-Aye’m outta here .

They call this research?

banished — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 03:59:29 -0800

Attractiveness of your name is linked to attractiveness of your face. Even more interesting, the so called "professional" researcher used the service "Hot or Not" to conduct her research by uploading fake profiles.

semmi — Wed, 22 May 2002 17:53:35 -0800

Looking at an attractive woman swell's a man's ego. Looking even at a picture of an attractive woman is enough to dramatically boost a man's estimation of his earning prospects, career success, generosity and dominance --and research has found that women find them attractive.

Jubey — Sat, 13 Apr 2002 20:05:41 -0800

Be discriminated against for looking too good. In Western Australia, a widow whose husband died accidentally is losing compensation money because she's considered attractive enough to remarry. What stupid laws do you have where you live?