Posted on 05/17/2014 3:54:43 PM PDT by kingattax
Predicting election results can be a tricky business. But according to a new study by Dartmouth College, you can often guess whether a female candidate will win an election by quickly looking at her face.
"Female politicians with more feminine features tend to win elections, while those with more masculine features tend to lose," the authors of the study, published Thursday in the journal of Social Psychological and Personality Science, write. "Whether a female politician was going to win or lose an election could be predicted within just 380 milliseconds after participants were exposed to her face."
Voters, the study found, prefer female politicians with feminine features. "These effects were independent of other social dimensions previously implicated in political decision making, such as competence, attractiveness, and familiarity," the study said.
The authors used traditional definitions of facial cues: "Larger eyes and rounded features convey femininity whereas lateral bone growth and prominent upper brows signal masculinity."
To conduct the study, researchers relied on Senate and gubernatorial election results between 1998 and 2010. The study's 300 participants were shown candidate's faces and asked to identify them as male or female. Using computer mouse tracking technology, hesitation and uncertainty was graphed, and later compared with the real election results.
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Ahhhhhh(putting bottle of eye bleach away)—thanks much!
Doesn't this dude sing for Jane's Addiction?
lol....youre welcome
These broads are why there is a demorat party.
This survey bodes well for Terri Lynn Land, Monica Wehby and Joni Ernst. As far as all those hags you guys a re showing they tend to be lesser offices in one party Dem areas. They look like the typical mother of the typical Dem.
Congressperson from Connecticut. Can’t recall her name, but she lost a beauty contest to a mud fence.
LOL
rosa delauro. she also ran a close second to homemade soap one time.
Arizona elected Nappy for governor, so there your exception.
We needn’t worry about PIAPS then.
I thought there were two “men” in the picture.
As Rush said, “The feminist movement was created to allow ugly women access to the mainstream of society.”
Ug.
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