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> Obviously athleticism would be physically visible on the face It what now? What athleticism cues other than body-fat are you getting from a face?
by petesergeant 4y ago
> Obviously athleticism would be physically visible on the face
It what now? What athleticism cues other than body-fat are you getting from a face?
- im3w1l 4y agoTestosterone is also visible. But it seems it's not necessarily a positive for attraction? https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.22.453412v1.full https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.22.453412v1....
- barry-cotter 4y agoTestosterone levels. I know a cleft chin develops with high T. I’m sure there are other more subtle diagnostic traits. Probably more stereotypically masculine traits like heavy brow ridges.
- WithinReason 4y agoTestosterone could also predict success in life based on yearbook photos, so we come full circle.
- ethanbond 4y agoWhy would you suppose a person needs more cues than body fat to see a difference? Seems perfectly sufficient on its own.
- petesergeant 4y agoBecause I think Vitalik Buterin probably has low athleticism and I think Ben Tameifuna probably has high athleticism, and a headshot of the former could be a school's star cross-country runner where the latter could be the school's star beer drinker.
- ethanbond 4y ago"Sufficient to explain a correlation" does not mean "tails do not exist on the distribution." Pro athletes are also a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of the world's athletic population.