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0 pointssliverstorm12y ago0 comments

"Beauty queens" is a terrible group to sample from. It is not in any way whatsoever random, which is what you would need to study. "Beauty" has many subjective components, which can change rapidly.

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seanmcdirmid12y ago

But that's not the point. Take 20 girls from each country who are considered by some popular standard to be beautiful, and measure variation. Since I'm assuming plastic surgery is not that widespread in DPRK, the results would be interesting, even if not very useful.

sliverstormOP12y ago

But you aren't just measuring variation in the population. You're also measuring strictness of beauty standards.

seanmcdirmid12y ago

No, we just measure variation according to some algorithm. The beauty is subjective based on standards, and the results would definitely be biased by that subjectivity.

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0 pointssliverstorm12y ago0 comments

"Beauty queens" is a terrible group to sample from. It is not in any way whatsoever random, which is what you would need to study. "Beauty" has many subjective components, which can change rapidly.

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seanmcdirmid12y ago

sliverstormOP12y ago

But you aren't just measuring variation in the population. You're also measuring strictness of beauty standards.

seanmcdirmid12y ago

No, we just measure variation according to some algorithm. The beauty is subjective based on standards, and the results would definitely be biased by that subjectivity.

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