Like this gal, without tons of make up she would be nothing.
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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You can’t speak the truth among some classes of people.
Personally (and speaking just for myself), I find African-American women less physically attractive than Caucasians and Asians. It’s personal preference, nothing more.
However, it should be noted that the vast majority of female African-American glamour icons are light-skinned with Caucasian features.
Hot looking isn’t crass, and almost all men agree on whether a woman is hot.
If a hot looking woman is lonely, it is self induced and shows a personal deficiency, because we all know that it is not from a lack of available males for her to interact with and choose from.
Now that is really funny, Erasmus.
Africa should be the go to place for cheap, available sex, but it isn’t.
Like this gal, without tons of make up she would be nothing.
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Amazing...
Mercy...
Kanazawa is almost an anagram for Kwaanza.
Almost.
Your mileage may vary.
But as Barack says, if you're only getting 8 MPG, you need to consider a trade-in.
Cheers!
Cheers!
I teach in a majority black district w/ a majority black female staff & the whole light skin/dark skin nastiness is completely perpetuated by black women themselves.................I stay away from that for simple self preservation!
“with exceptions for Beyonce etc.”
Beyonce really whites herself up in terms of her appearance.
That said I can think of examples of very beautiful white AND black women, easily.
Most that come to mind are models, naturally.
There are those like Tyra who give off a very white look, however, there are those (name escapes me of that adorable Ethiopian with the chubby cheeks, I just love her) that have a very black look. Grace Jones, although I don’t think she’s that attractive, was another example of a very successful model who has an African look.
I’m disappointed in you, ansel. Always thought you were smarter than that.
“....Amish, “
What is the opposite of Amish? I got the other opposites :)
“Most of the people considered to be physically attractive require tons of makeup and fashion tricks to achieve any kind of attractive state.”
True dat, the supermodels etc. when viewed with normal hair, clothes and no makeup just look like average, attractive, middle aged thin women most of the time. Sometimes they seem to have pretty bad skin, though.
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