To All God's Children,
-->Race is not a good predictor of personality and other qualities, but it’s the easiest for a lay person to use. Just look at a person’s skin color and then you automatically know everything. In my opinion, hometown, self-interests and occupation would be a better predictor of personality than skin color and facial feature.
African Americans, we wear our skin like the Star of David on Jews during WWII. I suppose Jews do still stand out like African Americans because of our noses, but also Jewish last names stand out. Unlike common Jewish names like Goldberg, common Black surnames like Jones, Jackson, and Brown help us blend in.
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Friday, March 5, 2010
The Other Law of Averages
To All God's Children,
The principle of averageness states that when it comes to people the more faces that are averaged together, the more attractive that face becomes. To explain, a computer can average together a certain number of people’s faces like a melting pot merging all their features to make one face. The composite is perceived as more attractive with each face that’s added. Is it possible that people with denser genetic pools are seen as more attractive for that very reason? If you want to widen the gene pool it would make sense to be more attracted greater variety. Or according to koinophilia, an average would be more prevalent anyway because that’s what makes it the average or typical look and thus more likely to have common or much needed features for survival or fitness.
The principle of averageness states that when it comes to people the more faces that are averaged together, the more attractive that face becomes. To explain, a computer can average together a certain number of people’s faces like a melting pot merging all their features to make one face. The composite is perceived as more attractive with each face that’s added. Is it possible that people with denser genetic pools are seen as more attractive for that very reason? If you want to widen the gene pool it would make sense to be more attracted greater variety. Or according to koinophilia, an average would be more prevalent anyway because that’s what makes it the average or typical look and thus more likely to have common or much needed features for survival or fitness.
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