If you explain this & you've cracked about a dozen issues with human relationships that social sciences have been struggling with for years.
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Replying to @smaLLquietLife
so approach I had in mind: (i) have people identify genders to whom attracted; (ii) rate attractiveness of photos; (iii) test differences
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Replying to @eigenrobot
How would you rate (ii)? Better for you to provide the photos to the subjects right? So use photos from studies on consensus on beauty? …
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Replying to @smaLLquietLife
contrast ratings by people attracted to depicted gender vs. ratings by those not weight by variance of first group's ratings probably
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Replying to @eigenrobot
So you are comparing results of one study controlled for sexual orientation & another not controlled for it?
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Replying to @smaLLquietLife @eigenrobot
… I might be babbling nonsense anyway since I have no training in statistics or such studies at all. But …
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Replying to @smaLLquietLife @eigenrobot
… If one study is not controlled for sexual orientation, wouldn't it skew heterosexual because that's the majority?
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Replying to @smaLLquietLife @eigenrobot
How attractive someone is, is literally in the eye of the beholder. Diff. groups measure beauty differently. Is one more right than another?
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Replying to @smaLLquietLife
think my method wouldn't be returning any sort of absolute measure of beauty; only consistency of its evaluation by/across different groups
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Such a study would be VERY interesting. Might come up with results that lead in unexpected directions.
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be pretty straightforward to run! depending on whether I'm kicked out of school this week might have time to do it this summer :)
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