hot take: if it turns out that attractive women wind up with rectovaginal endometriosis more often because they wind up having sex earlier and that can cause rectovaginal endometriosis, y'all in a towering righteous fury about that study might wind up feeling like real assholes
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Replying to @chaosprime
Or any other lifestyle factors that co-occur with measured attractiveness, rather than a direct causal link between endometriosis and attractiveness. Say, workout routines, types of diet, high heels (not likely, but go with it), makeup, etc.
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“Beauty” in this context might be code for “skinny” lol
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partially! But the difference in attractiveness is larger than the difference in BMIpic.twitter.com/nXU6s3DqfM
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this seems pretty psuedoscientific to me though...how are they determining attractiveness? it seems like ugliness would easier to measure lol.
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"Once this overall evaluation was completed, other four different physicians (two females and two males), blinded to the women's preoperative diagnosis but not to the study hypothesis, independently gave a judgment, based on direct evaluation, on patient attractiveness on a...
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Wait, am I reading this correctly—“attractiveness” was determined by 4 people? Seems like you’d get pretty inaccurate results there.
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You mean "imprecise" or "low reliability"? Been out of this game for a while but it doesn't strike me as that bad, tho unclear why raters are Drs. Feel free to read the references; fairly sure prior attractiveness research talks about measurement standards https://www.fertstert.org/article/S0015-0282(12)02127-9/pdf …
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i'd have been happier with a larger evaluator cohort, but on a five-point scale, intra-rater and test-retest validity should be pretty high. we whinge about the subjectivity of attractiveness all day but at the end of the day the thing we actually mean by it is intersubjective
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and nailed down to a fare-thee-well. the pop-junk culture ten-point scale even replicates very well because "attractiveness" means *what we think everybody else likes*, not what we like
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Oh yeah, it bothers me less if it’s “do you think most other people think this person is attractive” rather than “do you think this person is attractive.”
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