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Originally Posted by flstf
I read somewhere that most people consider faces attractive that are the most average. Average size nose and eyes, average distance between eyes, etc... I wonder how racial differences factor into this? Also I wonder if any white kids would pick black dolls?
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The most important thing is symmetry and the relation to the golden proportion. There is of course a lot of mystical mumbojumbo about the golden ratio etc, but it seems to be true in testing.
There is a lot of unanswered questions in the video, but the one that really would be good to study in depth is the 'baby' part. What they showed was not a good experimental design. Frist just having black children and second only white or black babies wasn't a good way to do it. Perhaps the real experiment had more depth. I'd have had non-standard skintone choices as well, and even a 'pure' white doll. Perhaps the problem with the black babies isn't that they looked black but they looked dirty to the children (I'm not saying its the case, I'm saying it needs to be tested for). Given the choice of a red baby or a black baby which would they pick? Given the choice of a white skin toned baby to a totally white baby which would they pick? I think without such additions the conclusion of the study is questionable.