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Looks and Longevity: Do Prettier People Live Longer? (www.sciencedirect.com)
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Highlights

  • Little is known about the association between facial attractiveness and longevity
  • We analyze how attractiveness based on yearbook pictures is linked to longevity
  • We find that the least attractive 1/6th had a significantly Higher Hazard of mortality
  • The least attractive 1/6th of women lived almost 2 years less than others at 20.
  • The least attractive 1/6th of men lived almost 1 years less than others at 20.
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[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

Sometimes I feel the social sciences are an elaborate bit. Not only do they not control for the obvious variables, there's no response once you go avove a certain treshold (indicating that it's probably the confounding variables at play), and the attractiveness paper divides up the population in sextiles.

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