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This is confusing to me, because most of the people I talk to who share their feelings about their looks seem to find themselves less attractive than my estimat
by jamesaguilar 13y ago
This is confusing to me, because most of the people I talk to who share their feelings about their looks seem to find themselves less attractive than my estimate. Maybe I'm just systematically overestimating people and they are in turn STILL overestimating themselves, but one has to wonder if this study is really finding what it thinks it's finding.
- jessedhillon 13y agoPeople may be showing humility. Also, when you talk to them, you may be measuring something other than their mental self- representation -- maybe they are expressing where they think they are relative to society, whereas the experiment is measuring the delta between self-image and reality. tl;dr -- You can think yourself ugly, yet still not as ugly as you actually are!