Posted on 05/29/2011 4:14:56 PM PDT by decimon
Earlier this month, the popular magazine Psychology Today published an article by evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa titled “Why Are Black Women Less Physically Attractive Than Other Women?" that was met, expectedly, with mass outrage. The article used data based on another study to make several claims such as "black women are objectively less physically attractive than other women" yet "subjectively consider themselves to be far more physically attractive than others."
After some attempted editing of the title, the magazine retracted the post from its website in its entirety. Kanazawa in turn is facing an investigation by the London School of Economics, where he is a professor, after a unanimous vote for his dismissal by the student union.
Contributing writers to Psychology Today moved quickly to do some damage control. Dr. Kaufman, in his blog for the magazine "Beautiful Minds," wrote a post re-analyzing Kanazawa's data.
We retrieved the data from Add Health on which Satoshi Kanazawa based his conclusions to see whether his results hold up to scrutiny... Kanazawa mentions several times that his data on attractiveness are scored "objectively"... [However] the low convergence of ratings finding suggests that in this very large and representative dataset, beauty is mostly in the eye of the beholder. Because raters differ strongly in terms of how they rate... this source of variation needs to be taken into account when testing for average race differences in ratings of attractiveness. Kanazawa does not indicate that he did so.
Moreover, Kaufman noted that "the majority of [Kanazawa's] data were based on the ratings of attractiveness of the participants when they were teenagers." When the data was stratified based on age, he concluded that "as adults, Black Women in North America are not rated less attractive by interviewers of the Add health study."
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Kanazawa
Psychology Ptoday has a ptarmagin by the ptail.
After watching the Walmart Booty Song by Mr. Ghetto I bet Mr. Kanazawa will change his mind! LOL!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUFqrnl7vUI
Before you post a word, I suggest you get yourself a TEN FOOT POLE.
When it is cold out, don’t ptarmagins turn really, really white?
Tough call.
Let's ask Kanye West
"That's racist!"
I dunno...I went to a racially mixed HS for three years. Two of the “teenagers” that white and black guys were after the most were african american girls.
Can’t recall their names for the life of me...but damn, those girls were hot.
Yeah, that "academic freedom" stuff is just fine with the Left until you say something they don't like.
I’ve never understood how some people can be attracted to one another. From what I’ve observed, how one looks really isn’t the key, either
If looks or beauty was the sole criteria, then why are there so many gorgeous women who are lonely?
If personality was the sole criteria, then why do so many men cringe when their friends say of his coming blind date, “...she has a great personality!”
I’ve known of couples who fight constantly, and wouldn’t have it any other way. Somehow, this is exciting and invigorating, powering the dynamics of their relationship. How weird is that!
But most of all I’ve noticed opposites attract one another, especially when the other is perceived as ‘exotic’.
This is my view as a white man, but I am more attracted to white females. Maybe it makes me racist, but I just don’t find black women attractive, with exceptions for Beyonce etc.
But, putting up a blog post about it probably was not a smart thing to do. It’s very hard to study something like that objectively.
This is my view as a white man, but I am more attracted to white females. Maybe it makes me racist, but I just don’t find black women attractive, with exceptions for Beyonce etc.
But, putting up a blog post about it probably was not a smart thing to do. It’s very hard to study something like that objectively.
Who cares what these coots think?
Prof. Kanazawa just found out what it feels like to touch the third rail - yowsa!
To me, the story is the story and not what is suggested in the title.
Well, he needs to pay a visit at my office - full of stunning, smart, accomplished black women.
My BFF is a beautiful black woman.
What a putz.
I think it just comes down to personal taste. I find that I prefer the more full-face that black women tend to have as being more attractive than the more angular face of a white woman.
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