You should make an even bigger emphasis that this is about Asians’ preferences in the US. Also, I disbelieve that feminized faces are more attractive to women. Perhaps the study you cited is erroneous in some way. Also, I didn’t like so many discussions of “is this racism? is this not racism?” in the article. I think this is too judgmental and detracts from the article. However, overall, I found it an interesting read. I liked it that you posted abl bunch of plots and statistics.
Well to be clear, the body of studies I’m discussing are in the US, Canada, Australia, and Western Europe. The three I discuss the longest are in the US and Australia, but the studies I compiled are not just relevant to the US. I could be clearer though that this does not discuss dating preferences in Asia, thank you for pointing this out.
Edit: Actually no, I think I was pretty clear about this when I wrote:
The studies I will discuss are about dating dynamics in “the West”, meaning that they were mainly conducted in the United States or Europe, and you should expect these results to generalize across the U.S., Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and so on.
On the facial attractiveness literature, yeah it is surprising but I think actually correct! A lot of different pieces of evidence pointing towards this. I encourage you to skim Perrett et al. (1998),Rhodes (2000), and Nakamura & Watanabe (2019).
I was surprised that you didn’t dig into attractiveness in general and facial attractiveness specifically more.
The few times I’ve seen the topic of racial preference in partner selection discussed openly, distinctive facial features were brought up quite often. Which, by itself, is just an anecdote—but it sure hints at what relationships might be worth examining in detail. Instead, it was delegated to a brief appendix discussion.
Although I do see how the data for that could be hard to get at—in mainstream science, anything within a degree of separation from the concept of “race” is a blighted wasteland where no sane man will dare to tread.
You should make an even bigger emphasis that this is about Asians’ preferences in the US. Also, I disbelieve that feminized faces are more attractive to women. Perhaps the study you cited is erroneous in some way. Also, I didn’t like so many discussions of “is this racism? is this not racism?” in the article. I think this is too judgmental and detracts from the article. However, overall, I found it an interesting read. I liked it that you posted abl bunch of plots and statistics.
Well to be clear, the body of studies I’m discussing are in the US, Canada, Australia, and Western Europe. The three I discuss the longest are in the US and Australia, but the studies I compiled are not just relevant to the US. I could be clearer though that this does not discuss dating preferences in Asia, thank you for pointing this out.
Edit: Actually no, I think I was pretty clear about this when I wrote:
On the facial attractiveness literature, yeah it is surprising but I think actually correct! A lot of different pieces of evidence pointing towards this. I encourage you to skim Perrett et al. (1998), Rhodes (2000), and Nakamura & Watanabe (2019).
I was surprised that you didn’t dig into attractiveness in general and facial attractiveness specifically more.
The few times I’ve seen the topic of racial preference in partner selection discussed openly, distinctive facial features were brought up quite often. Which, by itself, is just an anecdote—but it sure hints at what relationships might be worth examining in detail. Instead, it was delegated to a brief appendix discussion.
Although I do see how the data for that could be hard to get at—in mainstream science, anything within a degree of separation from the concept of “race” is a blighted wasteland where no sane man will dare to tread.