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What makes a man attractive? Hint: Look at his limbs
Women prefer a man with legs that are about half his height, according to previous research; scientists believe that is an evolutionary result of women wanting to choose only healthy men. Legs that are too short, for example, have been linked to type 2 diabetes. But other proportions, such as arm length to body height or whether the elbow and knee divide a limb in half, can also relate to a person's health. Do they influence women's views as well?
To answer this, researchers collected average body proportions from roughly 9000 men in the U.S. military and used them to create computer-generated images of male models (pictured). The scientists made the model's arms and legs slightly longer or shorter, and then asked more than 800 heterosexual U.S. women to rank each model's attractiveness.
How long the model's arms were relative to his height didn't seem to matter [open, DOI: 10.1098/rsos.171790] [DX], the team reports today in Royal Society Open Science. And women cared only a little about how the elbow or knee divided a limb. But as seen in previous work, women noticed if the legs made up more or less than half his height—and they didn't like it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 20 2018, @07:37PM (3 children)
It is a vain comfort I'll admit, but I do enjoy seeing the alt-righters and such others always falling back on 5th grade insults after getting their intellectual asses handed to them. I mean c'mon! This is an internet discussion not a highschool hallway. You can take a few minutes to come up with a decent comeback.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 20 2018, @08:49PM (2 children)
You're not worth a decent comeback. Burn in hell, you self-absorbed incel.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 20 2018, @09:05PM (1 child)
I don't know what 'incel' even means, and somehow that is relieving.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 20 2018, @11:13PM
Well, double incel on you, incel!