The Tufts University students were not conscious of what cues they were using to distinguish the two groups but the researchers concluded that the key variable was the skin, with Mormons have a healthier "glow" than the goyim.
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Some Mormons insist they can spot other Mormons; there's just something different about them they have a hard time putting into words. Nicholas Rule has done work showing that even non-Mormons can identify LDS from photographs at higher than chance rates:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0014241# …
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I've always contented that Mormon actors continue to have the Mormon look even after they abandon the religion and start drinking Mountain Dew. If you grew up with Family Home Evening the Mormon glow is written on your face like a gang tattoo forever.pic.twitter.com/FmfDBGMIeT
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But even more than the glow I think the distinguishing thing about Mormons is that they're in certain ways more masculine, with lots of stubble, thick eye brows, muscular cheeks and a tendency to go bald earlier in life. The most Mormon of Mormon of them all is Cael Sanderson:pic.twitter.com/PBgHvELxja
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Sometimes Mormons guess wrong and that's interesting, too. I've heard it said that part of the reason John Stockton was so popular in Utah was that he looked Mormon even though he was a Catholic. And he does, I think: the glow, the ever present stubble, the thick eyebrows:pic.twitter.com/tiYHgdHvxB
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Speaking of NBA players, the 80's Celtics had a backup forward from BYU named Fred Roberts who was also what I'd label "Super-Mormon" in appearancepic.twitter.com/a9HBvjaLqr
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Having travelled in the Southwest a lot I agree. They seem to be physically healthier somehow and there’s a vague wholesomeness or old-fashioned-ness. Like time travellers from the 1950s, even in modern clothes. Or if someone took an elderly person and reverse aged them.
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I believe they drink a significant amount less of alcohol than average population but then I would love to see their sugar/sweets consumption as it has to be higher. I wonder what this all has to do with collagen production in womb for Mormon pregnancies
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Selection for more masculine features due to practice of polygamy until early 20th century? Brigham Young had 51 wives and 56 children. Heber C. Kimball had 43 wives and 65 children. ...
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It's genetic. They mostly belong to one ethnic group. This isn't rocket science.
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