Based on your findings, you publish a four-feature alien attractiveness model, which highly correlates with survey rankings (r = 0.53).
Does this model measure attractiveness though? Whatever it measures, it seems to have very different properties from the attractiveness determined by surveys.
Clearly no; if the correlation is 0.53, then that means 72% of the factors influencing attractiveness are not captured by the measure.
Assuming your results are causal, you’ve found some major contributors to attractiveness, and that’s definitely worth something in itself, but it’d be inaccurate to market it as capturing attractiveness in general.
Tangential to the main point of your post, but:
Clearly no; if the correlation is 0.53, then that means 72% of the factors influencing attractiveness are not captured by the measure.
Assuming your results are causal, you’ve found some major contributors to attractiveness, and that’s definitely worth something in itself, but it’d be inaccurate to market it as capturing attractiveness in general.