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Women place a minimum threshold of physical attractiveness on potential mates.<ref>https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40806-017-0092-x</ref> Women also lie about the degree of importance of physical attractiveness.<ref>https://www.livescience.com/58607-mens-looks-may-matter-more-than-personality.html</ref> The common objection is that personality would matter too. Sadly, looks were the only factor to predict initial romantic interest.<ref>https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2005-11095-001</ref> Attractiveness and masculinity also predict a woman's chance of orgasm.<ref>https://putslab.la.psu.edu/documents/Puts%20et%20al.%20EHB%202012-1.pdf</ref> Looks play a central role both in long-term and short-term relationships for both sexes.<ref>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22468419</ref> Looks are highly heritable as well.<ref>https://www2.psy.uq.edu.au/~uqbziets/Mitchem%20et%20al%202013%20Estimating%20the%20sex-specific%20effects%20of%20genes%20on%20facial%20attractiveness%20and%20sexual%20dimorphism.pdf</ref> Women are also seemingly more choosy about looks. They rate 80% of men as below [[Decile|5/10]] both in online dating and elsewhere.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Women_rate_80.25_of_men_as_.22below_average.22.2C_while_men_rate_women_on_a_bell_curve</ref> While not as drastic as their ratings suggest, there is indeed evidence of women dating up in looks, e.g. very unattractive men were less likely married in one study. Conversely, very unattractive women were more likely being married than other women. | Women place a minimum threshold of physical attractiveness on potential mates.<ref>https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40806-017-0092-x</ref> Women also lie about the degree of importance of physical attractiveness.<ref>https://www.livescience.com/58607-mens-looks-may-matter-more-than-personality.html</ref> The common objection is that personality would matter too. Sadly, looks were the only factor to predict initial romantic interest.<ref>https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2005-11095-001</ref> Attractiveness and masculinity also predict a woman's chance of orgasm.<ref>https://putslab.la.psu.edu/documents/Puts%20et%20al.%20EHB%202012-1.pdf</ref> Looks play a central role both in long-term and short-term relationships for both sexes.<ref>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22468419</ref> Looks are highly heritable as well.<ref>https://www2.psy.uq.edu.au/~uqbziets/Mitchem%20et%20al%202013%20Estimating%20the%20sex-specific%20effects%20of%20genes%20on%20facial%20attractiveness%20and%20sexual%20dimorphism.pdf</ref> Women are also seemingly more choosy about looks. They rate 80% of men as below [[Decile|5/10]] both in online dating and elsewhere.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Women_rate_80.25_of_men_as_.22below_average.22.2C_while_men_rate_women_on_a_bell_curve</ref> While not as drastic as their ratings suggest, there is indeed evidence of women dating up in looks, e.g. very unattractive men were less likely married in one study. Conversely, very unattractive women were more likely being married than other women. | ||
===2. Looks are largely objective, especially | ===2. Looks are largely objective, especially ugly people's looks === | ||
Humans universally prefer good looking people and agree fairly consistently about who is attractive.<ref>Di Dio C, Macaluso E, Rizzolatti G (2007) The Golden Beauty: Brain Response to Classical and Renaissance Sculptures. PLoS ONE2(11): e1201. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0001201</ref><ref>https://archive.is/tmkKW</ref><ref>Psychological Bulletin 2000, Vol. 126, No. 3, 390-423 DOI: 10.1037//0033-2909.126.3.390 | Humans universally prefer good looking people and agree fairly consistently about who is attractive.<ref>Di Dio C, Macaluso E, Rizzolatti G (2007) The Golden Beauty: Brain Response to Classical and Renaissance Sculptures. PLoS ONE2(11): e1201. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0001201</ref><ref>https://archive.is/tmkKW</ref><ref>Psychological Bulletin 2000, Vol. 126, No. 3, 390-423 DOI: 10.1037//0033-2909.126.3.390 | ||
</ref><ref>http://jonathanstray.com/papers/Langlois.pdf</ref> They agree more about the looks of very attractive and unattractive individuals, hence for them looks are more objective. People agree less about people of average attractiveness, so here individual preferences play a greater role. Even babies prefer attractive faces over non-attractive ones<ref>https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6355-babies-prefer-to-gaze-upon-beautiful-faces</ref> Young children also make value judgements based on facial features | </ref><ref>http://jonathanstray.com/papers/Langlois.pdf</ref><ref>https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319178660</ref><ref>https://labs.la.utexas.edu/langloislab/files/2015/04/meta.pdf</ref> They agree more about the looks of very attractive and unattractive individuals, hence for them looks are more objective. People agree less about people of average attractiveness, so here individual preferences play a greater role. Even babies prefer attractive faces over non-attractive ones<ref>https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6355-babies-prefer-to-gaze-upon-beautiful-faces</ref> Young children also make value judgements based on facial features <ref>http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/dev-dev0000734.pdf</ref> and parents treat their good looking children better. Even among widely different cultures, universal standards for beauty exist.<ref>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3130383/</ref> and Women prefer tall men to short men.<ref>https://research.similarminds.com/romantic-height-preferences-in-men-and-women/227</ref> | ||
===4. [[Strategic pluralism|The Dual Mating Strategy]] === | ===4. [[Strategic pluralism|The Dual Mating Strategy]] === | ||