Althouse: "Beauty and Ugliness Identification Method."

January 26, 2015

mccullough said...: No worse than the thigh gap; 1/26/15, 10:44 AM
David said...: As usual they choose pretty people (mostly) to illustrate the point.; 1/26/15, 10:56 AM
one of the bobs said...: Seems to have a racial bias.; 1/26/15, 11:06 AM
lemondog said...: I have a big protruding nose, so ya' know...; 1/26/15, 11:21 AM
Eric the Fruit Bat said...: If this kills off duck lips I'm all for it.; 1/26/15, 11:40 AM
The Godfather said...: I'm ugly (no surprise), but . . .

I'm not a robot.; 1/26/15, 12:10 PM
buwaya said...: It discriminates against receding chins and flat noses.
Makes some sense in selecting for more European features among Asian populations.; 1/26/15, 12:38 PM
Fritz said...: Does touching the mustache count?; 1/26/15, 1:09 PM
wildswan said...: Goes back to ideas of beauty which came from Greek and Roman statues. They had a nose and chin alignment that that finger method would catch. Also the forehead was supposed to go straight up and down - not overhang or recede. This is what is meant by "regular" as in Tennyson where he describes a heartless, wealthy beauty - "faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null."; 1/26/15, 3:47 PM
ken in tx said...: I tried it. It's easier to pass the test if you smile. That makes sense to me.; 1/26/15, 4:13 PM
Deb said...: I've got a finger for you right here, buddy.

(ha ha. word verification: icansensa ledge); 1/26/15, 7:53 PM