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[–]Poclurker[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

[–]FoxySDTWhite Nationalist 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

citing Lewis (2011)

Oh gee, probably the most ridiculous study I came across. I assume you haven't read it? Because I can't imagine how any person can take this seriously. This study consists of psychology professor giving his class of 18 (yes eighteen) students faces he pulled from Facebook and have them rate them on attractiveness. To his great satisfaction he found that blacks and mixed-race faces are the most attractive. Besides the fact that college students are unrepresentative sample of population and that sample size is absurdly small ( it's even less than 18 because only men rated female faces and vice versa so the actual sample size is half of that) it goes against every other finding in the literature. Not that author acknowledged that.

Funnily enough, this same guy published similar study in 2010 this time done on 20 of his students which found that mixed people are the most attractive. I guess writing short, easy-to-done studies to have any publication history at his name is his shtick.

[–]Poclurker[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

it goes against every other finding in the literature

Cite it.

[–]FoxySDTWhite Nationalist 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

[–]Poclurker[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Your 4th link doesnt work, and these studies are about dating not attraction. Women care about status. Thats why they date white men.

[–]FoxySDTWhite Nationalist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Dating isn't about attraction? Well that's an interesting take.

Anyway, if that was true, all women wold go for Asian men since they are the richest demographic group. Yet that doesn't happen. In fact, when you look at the table 5.6 in the infograph asian men would have to earn $254K more than white men in order for white women to prefer them. Black men would have to earn $154K more. This shows that race trumps money in dating. Besides, one of the surveys literally asked "which ethnicity you find most attractive" and white women chose white men by a pretty huge margin.