For some reason I got to thinking about average faces again. Here's a website that allows you to create them: Face Research » Demos » Make An Average
Average faces tend to look prettier than non-average ones, getting prettier the bigger sample averaged from, though hyper-attractive faces tend to be caricatures of the changes to the average, indicating perhaps where faces are heading. Thinner face, jutty out chin, thinner darker eyebrows, high cheekbones, etc. Same for men. Fat faces are ugly apparently.
Some people argue that it's not averages per se that make attractiveness, it's the smoothing out, removing blemishes and adding symmetry that does it, as if that isn't what averages do.
A hyper-attractive face with rather sticky out ears
How average are you?
Average faces tend to look prettier than non-average ones, getting prettier the bigger sample averaged from, though hyper-attractive faces tend to be caricatures of the changes to the average, indicating perhaps where faces are heading. Thinner face, jutty out chin, thinner darker eyebrows, high cheekbones, etc. Same for men. Fat faces are ugly apparently.
Some people argue that it's not averages per se that make attractiveness, it's the smoothing out, removing blemishes and adding symmetry that does it, as if that isn't what averages do.
A hyper-attractive face with rather sticky out ears
How average are you?
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