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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It is intellegent to agree with my observation in that post.
By the way I was married to a woman that was so beautiful, that many years later, people still blurt out that she was the most beautiful woman that they have ever seen in their life.
From what my son tells me, her internal faults are such that she still managed to become quite lonely and bitter at the world in spite of what she was handed.
And white men can’t jump.
I guess I should ping you to post 61.
What ever happened to the young black conservative woman that appeared a few times on Hannity? She was really sweet but put Alan Combs in his place one time. I can’t remember her name. Really cute face and smile.
Don't know as I haven't watched television for some time.
Was it Star Parker?
Oh oh - Ultimate No-No.
Sorry, Kanazawa-san - you can’t say that in the West, and certainly NOT in America.
Truth, these days, is ALWAYS subject to the dictates of political correctness.
That's because they wear too much make-up. Clogs the pores.
Face. Huh. Yeah. You sure you on the right end there? Because I could use full in a whole different....
I'll just go over here now and be quiet.
... the supermodels are picked by gay men.
They don’t believe in tits or hips.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.....
I don’t mind curvy butts either.
That’s just me.
Bookmarking for later giggles.
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I see “Amish” used as a code word around here.
Yes; apparently the opposite of Amish is “Amish”.
I don’t know why you’re posting pics of the Creature from the Black Lagoon. Oh, wait....
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