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Re:Software engineers paying 75K to get 3 inches taller by orangepurple on Friday September 16, 2022 @07:04AM (#32864530)
Make a fake profile on Tinder and the results speak for themselves. Women flock to a specific phenotype of homo sapien with a very high probability (top 5% of men). I think of this phenotype as a race of its own, since its members share many common characteristics, and interestingly the one many focus on first, skin color, isn't one of the distinguishing factors.
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Re:Software engineers paying 75K to get 3 inches taller by koonsolo on Friday September 16, 2022 @09:59AM (#32866113)
Since you seem to know, what does the 5% profile look like? It's all genetically fixed, or does the style and environment in the pictures play a role?
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Re:Software engineers paying 75K to get 3 inches taller by orangepurple on Friday September 16, 2022 @10:44AM (#32866702)
As a starting point geometrically the 95 percentile has proportions like those in the faces you see when you search Google Images or Bing Images for "average face in every country." Notice that the average face of either sex is universally attractive to most people.

Beyond this there are about 55 features that need to come together to get the 95th percentile phenotype. Rather than enumerating them all here, there is a four part analysis on YouTube:

  1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhEuWSXxu5k
  2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwbGW9jeDeo
  3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz7tI7qT5t8
  4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2otjA_98StY
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Re:Software engineers paying 75K to get 3 inches taller by koonsolo on Friday September 16, 2022 @06:30PM (#32872869)
I'm sorry but that's just the face. It's a bit absurd that women would only take the face into account. In fact, it absurd that women would only take looks into account.
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Re:Software engineers paying 75K to get 3 inches taller by orangepurple on Saturday September 17, 2022 @02:54PM (#32880252)
Is there room for anything else on Tinder? Or other dating apps? Do people on those sites care? Debatable. Obviously looks are not the only factor in a relationship, but they are a major one, especially in longer term relationships, and are often the only factor.

Evidence from 2014 craigslist personals: https://incels.wiki/images/6/61/Juggernaut_test_2014.jpg

Looks unmatched couples are unstable and the better looking partner is at elevated risk of monkey branching.

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