I kind of have mixed feelings.

There is evidence that when you ask groups of people to rate pictures of other people on attractiveness there are certain proportions that generally always rank high across all cultures and ones that always rank low. Things like symmetry and all of that do effect the average ranking of attractiveness. You can measure a person and predict how they will be ranked in one of the look at the photo and rank 'em tests. So while everyone has a bit of a subjective perspective, if you look at "as a whole", which is what statistics always do, there are things that objectively tell you how a person would rank with most panels of people judging them. However the statistics can't tell you anything about how a given individual will perceive any other individual. Statistics are irrelevant at the level of the individual. If you are the one in a million of something that doesn't mean one millionth of you is that way. All of you is that way even if almost no one else is.

I do think doctors can use that to get people to do things to their face when they really don't need them, and I do think there is something to the ANTM "pretty ugly" thing. The whole if you are too symmetrical and statistically pretty there isn't much that is interesting about the face. Sometimes what peaks the interest is the imperfections, and that can make someone more attractive (or at least more interesting to look at) than the perfectly proportioned and symmetrical. Now too far from the statistical pretty in too many ways and you get just plain fugly, but often it is the not quite perfect that we like to look at.

Did I miss the actual number for the bottom two. They acted like they got some insanely ugly number, but I'm assuming they were still all in the top percentile of attractiveness, just a bit below the other people. So it wasn't that they were ranked as ugly, just the least statistically pretty in a pool of people that are all very high ranking. Kinda like being the dumbest person at a Mensa meeting. You are still in the top couple of percentile of all people, just at the bottom of a very select group.

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