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22 year old gay male here--I chose right, left, right, right. For the women, I thought the right faces looked happier and more engaging. I was pretty confident
by aphyr 16y ago
22 year old gay male here--I chose right, left, right, right. For the women, I thought the right faces looked happier and more engaging. I was pretty confident in my answers except for #2, the first male in the series. I think the transparent hair across the forehead was skewing my reaction.
If heterosexual males and females preferred the left images far more often, it's strange that I would have chosen the right for both. I wonder if these results are typical for my subgroup, and if so, why?
Gotta love having hardwired sexual preferences for a non-reproductive orientation! It's like asking whether you prefer carburetors or fuel injection on your bumper car. :)
- thaumaturgy 16y agoHuh. I would describe myself as a "very" hetero male -- though not with any issues around those that aren't -- and I chose the exact opposite, left-right-left-left. It would be really neat to do a statistically significant test on that.
- aphyr 16y agoNeat! Yeah, I'd love to take the full test and see their dataset.
- inerte 16y agoWhat do you mean with 4 choices, and a male? I just found two faces on the article and I tried to follow the links but didn't see where these 4 options are.
- gloob 16y agoThe popup when you enter the page isn't actually spam, and isn't actually some customer satisfaction thing. It took me a few minutes to figure that out, though.
- orangecat 16y agoObligatory: http://xkcd.com/570/ http://xkcd.com/570/ Heterosexual male, picked all four left, although only the first was obvious for me.
- hab 16y agoEnable JavaScript. I couldn't see it either until I allowed the domain with NoScript. There's a popup that shows up with a link to the survey on Survey Monkey.
- jsdalton 16y agoI only saw one image in the article. What are you guys looking at?
- ja27 16y agoright right(barely) left left. I think most of my opinion is based on how I feel about people I've known that looked vaguely like the composites. I think I'm not answering the right question though. Looking at the first picture, I'd agree that the left face is more attractive, but I'm more attracted to the face on the right. Weird distinction. I'm also a bit jaded by a quote I heard a long time ago along the lines of "experimental psychology is really the psychology of the 18-year old freshman psych student."
- drblast 16y agoI'm heterosexual and preferred the women on the right too, and I agree they look more engaging and happy. I'm fairly surprised that the actual results were so skewed. And my wife's feelings are hurt because I tell her she's attractive and now she knows my taste is abnormal.
- joecode 16y agoSame here. Actually, I'd say it's quite a compliment. Abnormal just means that you don't have typical tastes in beauty, so it means her beauty is of special kind. I found the first girl on the right definitely more attractive, but I generally find slightly more masculine looking women more attractive, even though I'm quite heterosexual. I guess most men just like more feminine looking women because of some kind of dominance instinct. (Though it could also just be a flawed study, a statistical fluke of some sort.)