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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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[-] snooggums@midwest.social 17 points 1 month ago

On average, being more attractive means being more successful. Being successful leads to more money. More money leads to being able to afford more food, less stress due to more economic stability, and more access to better healthcare.

Obviously not 100% guaranteed, but kind of obvious when looking st averages.

[-] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

It’s probably because damsels in distress get rescued by the male protagonist while hags are on their own and have to rely on hissing and casting spells.

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

Any relationship found with cause of death?

And hopefully they controlled for parental income...

[-] adam_y@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

If you read the paper...

This finding remained robust to the inclusion of covariates describing high-school achievement, intelligence, family background, earnings as adults, as well as mental and physical health in middle adulthood.

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago
[-] Vampire@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

We stay winning.

Sucks to suck , uggos

[-] 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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