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It's not clear cut in case of "ugly". The term could be defined as unpleasant to look at or be around. They could be unpleasant because of past decisions that r
by bko 5y ago
It's not clear cut in case of "ugly". The term could be defined as unpleasant to look at or be around. They could be unpleasant because of past decisions that reflect on their personal choices and attitudes. If someone is morbidly obese, they likely have an issue with over-eating. If someone is un-groomed, it likely reflects on other aspects of their personality.
So "ugliness" doesn't exist in a vacuum. And these social science studies especially around something so subjective as appearance are not reliable IMO.
- techbio 5y agoI also tend to mistrust social sciences studies, and I'd agree that they could be any of those things. Or, the person could be an otherwise perfectly well-kempt child of alcoholics, the victim of assault, or anything else divergent from the subjective preferences of whoever calls the shots. If you are familiar with the old HotOrNot.com or today's swipe-judgement dating apps, you can imagine some pretty large, quantitative datasets about peoples opinions of attractiveness, so I see these as plausible, without having looked into them much.