The precision of beauty

[GQgeek]

Yes, you CAN create a formula for everything!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8421076.stm

 

[Ataturk]

At least this junk science is easily refutable. Shania Twain?

 

[Philip1978]

That sounds about right.

 

[DBowers]

They only surveyed a group of students. It doesn't represent all age groups and that's already one sampling problem.

 

[sunror]

shania has always looked great

 

[guardimp]

There have been mathematical calculations for beauty for ages

 

[tagutcow]

Originally Posted by Ataturk

At least this junk science is easily refutable. Shania Twain?

The study never claimed that facial proportions were the only factor in the perception of beauty.

 

[LabelKing]

Originally Posted by tagutcow

The study never claimed that facial proportions were the only factor in the perception of beauty.

Musical brilliance is also a factor here.

 

[Tokyo Slim]

I propose we rename this thread Amerikajinda X mensimageconsultant deathrace to fail.

 

[Connemara]

Jindascience!

 

[Dentata]

Fortunately, the researchers calculated that these ratios correspond to an average face.

This really isn't news. They've known for a while that people find "average" faces attractive. I tend to prefer faces with a bit of personality myself but ymmv.

 

[BoilerRoom]

BBC aired a fascinating 4 part series on this topic entitled "The Human Face", which is currently available on youtube. One of the most fascinating segments of the series discussed Da Vinci's Golden Ration of 1 / 1.618, a mathematical formula that attempted to rationalize true beauty . This formula can be seen on "beautiful" people in a number of ways: 1) He argued that in a well proportioned body the distance from your feet to your navel was 1.618 times more than than the distance from naval to top of head. 2) Width of the mouth was 1.618 larger than the nose 3) Width of the mouth was 1.618 larger than the distance from the corner of the mouth to the edge of the jaw. 3) Incisor tooth was 1.618 larger than the next tooth over This goes on and on...This ratio is applicable to triangles, which was used to create a series of pentagons. These shapes were used to create a facial outline of a mask that was overlayed onto photographs of people to estimate their beauty. Check out about 5 minutes in: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1kqM...eature=related