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medical phrenology
May. 30th, 2005 02:15 pmOkCupid could easily do a lot of research, after tests like the one that tests your ability to pick out gay people / virgins. I wonder if psychology departments would be willing to pay them.
Can you tell how tall someone is from their face?
Of course, one would like to control for correlations between the investigated property and consciously-accessible features, such as beauty / race / hairdo / jewelry. e.g. one who predicts Asians to be shorter would tend to score positively, even if race is the only feature they can see (although such inferences can be also be made unconsciouly)
Psychologists say that people attribute innocence and honesty to baby-faced people. This could easily and cheaply tested on OkCupid, if only we have a way of measuring baby-facedness.
from Science of Physiognomy:
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Can you tell how tall someone is from their face?
Of course, one would like to control for correlations between the investigated property and consciously-accessible features, such as beauty / race / hairdo / jewelry. e.g. one who predicts Asians to be shorter would tend to score positively, even if race is the only feature they can see (although such inferences can be also be made unconsciouly)
Psychologists say that people attribute innocence and honesty to baby-faced people. This could easily and cheaply tested on OkCupid, if only we have a way of measuring baby-facedness.
from Science of Physiognomy:
( Read more... )