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Re:Online Dating and the Death of the 'Mixed-Attractiveness'... by beachstartup on Monday April 11, 2016 @03:24AM (#11470088)
the vast majority of ugly people are only 'ugly' because they're too fat or too skinny.

it's amazing how good looking your face becomes when you're in shape and have a decent amount of muscle mass with definition.

Re:Online Dating and the Death of the 'Mixed-Attractiveness'... by neverminder on Monday April 11, 2016 @04:19AM (#11470269)
Not really. Attractiveness of face is all about symmetry and proportion. For example: If you have a huge nose or a massive protruding mole you'll never be attractive no matter your body composition. I'm sure an algorithm could be (already is) composed to verify attractiveness of face.
Re:Online Dating and the Death of the 'Mixed-Attractiveness'... by knackernews on Monday April 11, 2016 @09:04AM (#11471165)
> If you have a huge nose or a massive protruding mole you'll never be attractive no matter your body composition

BULLSHIT. I was very self conscious of my big nose but Asian women love it! The first time I heard 'I like your nose! it's so nice' I couldn't believe it.

I had to turn off notifications for Tinder because it's so active after 11:00PM.

Re:Online Dating and the Death of the 'Mixed-Attractiveness'... by nailer on Monday April 11, 2016 @07:28AM (#11470799)
> If you have a huge nose you'll never be attractive

Many male models have huge or badly broken noses (see Stone Island campaigns for the latter). They're still considered handsome. I guy who lived on my street has an extraordinary long face, and he's a now D&G model.

Exercising and having good skin puts you in front of 90% of men. I'd agree algorithm might say smaller noses are, on the whole, more handsome, but you can still be considered handsome having a huge nose.

Re:Online Dating and the Death of the 'Mixed-Attractiveness'... by the_mitsuhiko on Monday April 11, 2016 @04:28AM (#11470299)
Since when is symmetry relevant? I thought it has been sufficiently shown that symmetry plays no role for beauty. Pretty sure fitness has a bigger impact on beauty than features you cannot change without surgery.
Re:Online Dating and the Death of the 'Mixed-Attractiveness'... by dragandj on Monday April 11, 2016 @06:07AM (#11470548)
Not only symmetry, but also the proportions. People are evolutionary wired to use symmetry and proportions of faces and bodies to estimate health and survival/reproduction "value". This is not the only factor, of course, but a huge one.
Re:Online Dating and the Death of the 'Mixed-Attractiveness'... by iansane on Monday April 11, 2016 @05:25AM (#11470433)
I remember in biology we learned that symmetry is an indicator of good genetics, so it makes sense that we are biased to symmetry since higher fitness/survivability.
Re:Online Dating and the Death of the 'Mixed-Attractiveness'... by T-A on Monday April 11, 2016 @05:03PM (#11475084)
I am reminded of this recently posted article: http://nautil.us/issue/33/attraction/am-i-ugly