Quote:For the study, which is published in PLoS ONE, 80 science students from Charles University -- 40 men and 40 women -- took an in-depth exam to gauge their IQ and were subsequently photographed with neutral face expressions. Another 160 participants assessed the photographs, judging the subjects' attractiveness and intelligence on a scale of 1 (the highest ranking) to 7 (lowest ranking).

When Kleisner, Chvátalová, and Jaroslav Flegr tore into the data, they returned an intriguing finding.

"Raters were able to estimate intelligence with an accuracy higher than chance from static facial photographs of men but not from photos of women."

Quote:While the study's principal finding merits a booze-bolstered conversation at a dinner party, it will need to be replicated among men of broader age and cultural backgrounds before we take it too seriously.

http://www.realclearscience.com/journal_...08592.html

So you agree that judging based on a visual appearance is accurate.

(04-15-2014 04:51 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  So you agree that judging based on a visual appearance is accurate.

this is old news for me........

Racist. Glad you made that clear to all of us.

I actually was polled for one of these studies in college. I was asked to look at a series of pictures and rate their likelihood of having a high IQ based on what they looked like. It was basically a liberal study to prove people were racist to be used in further indoctrination. I made a joke out of it and wrote in notes about people being retarded, gay, on drugs...etc.

(04-15-2014 04:51 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  So you agree that judging based on a visual appearance is accurate.

Why would I say otherwise? I profile people constantly and don't feel bad about it.

(04-15-2014 06:37 PM)dmacfour Wrote:  

(04-15-2014 04:51 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  So you agree that judging based on a visual appearance is accurate.

Why would I say otherwise? I profile people constantly and don't feel bad about it.

Yep, the God-given right of discernment has proven to be a worthy measure.

Fact is it's a normal human mechanism that we likely developed long ago for safety. It's pretty amazing that the politics of today is attempting to legislate this normal behavior out of existence for law enforcement, etc. With that being said, profiling isn't always correct.

Stupid or intelligent?

How'd this guy fair?



Or this guy?



and there's this....



You set em up and I'll knock em down.

(04-15-2014 09:25 PM)SumOfAllFears Wrote:  

I was actually going to make a Hawking joke until I saw you beat me to it.