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> This guy is looking for "intelligence" and "beauty" as universally agreed traits No, he's not. From the article: "beauty is a purely subjective trait whose i
by Aaargh20318 10y ago
> This guy is looking for "intelligence" and "beauty" as universally agreed traits
No, he's not. From the article: "beauty is a purely subjective trait whose interpretation may vary from person to person. Luckily it is not necessary for me to define beauty in this essay except to state that for any given beholder, it will probably be normally distributed amongst the population."
He's assuming a normal distribution but he's not assuming a universal agreed standard of beauty.