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.
  • snooggums@midwest.socialEnglish
    181·
    5 months 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.worldEnglish
    8·
    5 months 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·
    5 months ago

    Any relationship found with cause of death?

    And hopefully they controlled for parental income…

    • adam_y@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      5 months 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.

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      31·
      5 months 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.