South African Mike Mike travels around the world taking pictures of faces and combining them in hi-tech composites. He calls the ongoing project The Faces Of Tomorrow.
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Here are the average women:
South African Racial profile:
79.4% Black
9.2% White
8.8% Coloured
2.6% Asian
Your the reason why I know American schools, at least at the primary and secondary level, are sucking it up.
Yes I caught that. Win for me!
I will neither agree nor disagree with you but one thing is for sure:
The smarter a people is the more its going to question its government especially if something is wrong with it.
So there is a motive, granted that lobbyists have a very substantial influence on the American government.
Purely hypothetical of course.
But, you left out the Ukrainian women. They're 14s.
Could it be that beauty is defined as the average?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial_symmetry
And where is the United States? It would be cool to see a mix of all the races here represented in their statistical proportions.
As for maternal DNA, 61.1% of those sampled were found as having Amerindian maternal mtDNA. This means that if you could trace back in time from daughter to mother, you would eventually reach women who lived in Puerto Rico in Pre-Columbian time. The rest divides between 26.4% with female African ancestors and 12.5% with female European ancestors.[16]
This is the top 1% in each country.
Look at England for example. The home grown women there (ones whose families can be traced back to 1066 AD) are scary as hell.
And the average South African woman is white? LOL
Happy Chanukah all!
http://www.faceresearch.org/demos/average
I bet you put as much faith in the Bible too.
To get the average phenotype of a population, you don't just average away a big nose or a witch like chin.
the best way would be to have say 1000 faces from china be rated from 1 - 10 on attractiveness level by people all over the world.
The median, the 5's, would best represent the average looks of a ethnic group to the rest of the world.
So many "scientists" etc are idiots because they can't understand the simple things.
These are good looking people, well above the average appearance in any country.
What is the point of this, to see if we can figure that out?
It's like TV & the movies where the story line is about a plain-looking woman and her painful life, then they cast Michelle Pfeiffer as the poor, downtrodden, ignored waitress in a grimy diner (an actual movie, BTW).
Ugly is generally related to asymmetry and off proportions, averaging corrects this. The median face would still be ugly; that's why we don't use average home prices ... tard.
Also, how does a country with almost 80% black population produce a white person?
You idiot.
BTW, tardism is a terrible disease; seek help.
Why would you even average facial images or skin tones? The composite gives you nothing that is representative in nature.
What I said above:
"And actually, the whole premise is flawed.
To get the average phenotype of a population, you don't just average away a big nose or a witch like chin.
the best way would be to have say 1000 faces from china be rated from 1 - 10 on attractiveness level by people all over the world.
The median, the 5's, would best represent the average looks of a ethnic group to the rest of the world.
So many "scientists" etc are idiots because they can't understand the simple things."
If you are a mathematician, you might want to spend less time manipulating and playing around with data, and more time gathering appropriate data and creating real information from that.
Hardly.
In any case, this is all a point in futility. The results are meaningless as I stated above.
WTF???
It tells us about his selectivity bias.
...now, how the hell do I reword that into a useful pickup line?
"Hey, baby.....judging from your facial symmetry, you just self-conscious enough to be exploited by the consumer market. Yeah..."
I think this project is incredible!
(I can see individual strands of hair across foreheads. If this were a large statistical sample that wouldn't happen -- instead you'd see a slight tonal difference without definition)
And of course, the South African woman is white...
So that's clearly a very small sample.
Not one of the individuals is as beautiful as the composite.
Here's to the average person.
Wouldn't it be nice?
The guy is obviously using this whole thing as a pretext to chat up hot chicks. What he means by average is average among those chicks that are hot enough for the ol' I'm-a-photographer routine. That's all there is to it.
In other words, these women ( even if they are composites of many women) all look too young to be "average".
The composite photos are significantly more attractive than the individuals shown. Does the compositing process "average out" all the oddities of each person, yielding someone who is a little more perfect?
Fascinating.
Bitches be crazy
Shocker.
It's big fun.
It is not in the eye of the beholder. It is not a cultural phenomenon.
It is a program within the mind/biome... it is arbitrary and wonderful
and utterly useful. The trick with uncovering the apparent and
(surprise) unremarkableness of beauty is to transcend one's own
thought and see an entirely more breathtaking panorama of existence.
We are not seeing beauty, we are seeing the genome speaking to our
genome.
There is a survival benefit to be found in optimizing gene
combinations through sexual selection. Those sexual participants who
make the best gross genome selections produce the most survivable
offspring. Scientifically speaking no one knows how to assay "best
gross genome selection". Yet without such a mechanism, offspring would
quickly degrade genetically toward chaotic noise (degradation and
death of the whole race). So, inductive reasoning and empirical
observation (and a smattering of evidence) has lead me to the
conclusion that:
1) There is a genetic program (instinct) that provides RECOGNITION,
pleasure feedback and preference for symmetrical arrangements of
facial features and gross body plans that are experienced by beholders
as "pleasingly beautiful".
2) This program is biased toward the mathematical AVERAGE such that if
you morph 10,000 random faces you will get a strikingly beautiful face
- not what you might intuitively expect, a bland boring face.
2a) The bias toward the average prevents the gradual "copy
degradation" exemplified by being unable to read a copy of a copy of a
copy of a copy of a document successively reproduced on a copier
(descent to chaotic noise) - instead, the bias to the average causes
beautiful people to select beautiful counterparts - and UGLY people to
select UGLY counterparts - both of which given sufficient gene pool
depth can and over time WILL preserve the aggregate race genome toward
an optimal center point (GENOMIC CENTERLINE) while securing the
advantages of variety and novelty in a bell shaped curve. This program
and its drives is the basis of all economics.
2b) The fascination with extreme averageness (beauty) occurs due to a
subprogram that has as its goal the discovery of FLAWS which itself is
a subprogram of a continual search for pattern and predictability -
this is related to why we stare at fires in fireplaces and enjoying
the near random motion in aquariums. The search for pattern and
meaning in the chaotic and random patterns of the fire is
"hypnotizing". A similar pattern search can be found in those who
continually try to divine the "winning plays" in stock markets and
casinos. I'm not saying there isn't one...I'm saying that the drive is
to FIND the pattern and meaning in the perceived noise. The continual
scanning process (scoping out :-) is designed to actually slightly
PREFER minor flaws such as Cindy Crawford's mole in that they satisfy
the search for pattern and meaning. If there is no such flaw, then the
beauty is by definition - hypnotic - an endless loop of observation
searching for the pattern that is not there. This explains why males
do not get tired of looking at pictures of beautiful women for
extensive periods of time.
3) The program is deliberately designed to be perceived as the will of
the host organism (the guy who's looking) playing out - rather than a
preprogrammed directive. This deliberately stealthy program takes over
most of the identity and action of the host during puberty and - at
least until reproduction succeeds - and in all truth, continues
without any letup until the hormones and other agents driving the
program are reduced in effect by the ravages of aging. By way of
example, a dog probably perceives that when it chases a stick it is
"choosing to chase the stick" - yet, a human would say "well, dog's
are IMPELLED to chase the stick by influence of instinct"...in just
such a fashion, humans believe they CHOOSE to follow the siren song of
beauty (a babelicious one) - yet, the very belief of such choice
prevents them from ever knowing that they are NOT in control of their
actions (and thus - lives). The program is a multistage
sensory/payback/feedback phenomenon analogous to a sharks attack
profile...whereby a shark will first smell blood and enjoy it, seek to
intensify the pleasure by homing in on higher concentrations (toward
the wounded source) of blood which increases the intensity and
anticipation of pleasure followed by lock on and final targeting when
the bleeding creature enters the bioelectric sensory apparatus of the
shark inducing frenzy followed by the intense pleasure of eating and
removal of hunger pangs.
4) When an individual (whether married or un) enters a target rich
environment such as a restaurant or bar a rigorously mathematical
searching, sorting, filtering, selecting, "settling", memory embedding
and pursuit program is initiated. As the male scans the room, other
males are rendered invisible for all practical purposes - the vast
majority of females are also invisible as the searching and sorting
subroutine scans the candidate faces/bodies where preliminary
candidates that satisfy the filtering program are passed to the
selecting program. The selecting program takes the two or three
potential candidates and then either immediately embeds the best
genetic candidate in short term memory or passes the candidates to an
economic subroutine which asks "of these potential candidates which
ones do I (the male doing the scanning) in particular have the best
chance of succeeding with - in other words the male may deliberately
choose to put in short term memory a female less beautiful than the
most beautiful female in view so as to achieve a higher potential of
pursuit success - the less attractive the male perceives himself to be
to females (power, handsomeness, maturity), the lower on the beauty
scale the male will aspire to. Once the settlement is made, the image
of the candidate is preserved and called upon multiple times due to
the pleasant rewards that the program issues whenever the beauty
program is provisionally satisfied - or "I can't get this person out
of my mind". If conditions are such that natural and cultural
inhibitors are surmounted - either naturally or artificially by drugs
and alcohol, then the pursuit program will be invoked and the game's
afoot.
4a)The beauty searching program's math is sensitive to conditions. It
will not require a perfect 10 be available in every social encounter -
it will take the population currently in view and will take what's
there and sort them into a conditionally based range of 0's to 10's
based on only what's in the view/room. The program is
domain/situationally calibrated - not absolute...until the question of
pursuit arises. Then, the choice to pursue may be dampened "if they're
all dogs", meaning very unlikely to produce a fit offspring in the
context of the males future options and aspirations.
5) Males would be totally happy to let this program run away to the
point of economic possibility - i.e. in the absence of countervailing
forces they would be delighted to mate with all females that reach the
"embedded in memory" stage. This is what leads to the phenomenon of
"harems" of females in some cultures which are the ultimate expression
of male dominance.
5a) The primary inhibitor of 5) is the female program. This program is
identical in gross feature to the male program and (within the grasp
and necessarily non-experiential learning of the author who is male)
is modified in the following fashion. Baby humans are unable to
survive on their own for very extensive time periods - many years. The
female program must select for genomic fitness AND optimal offspring
survival and is thus equipped with biological strategies that allow
her to "secure" a male for extensive periods of time. The human female
is unique in that she has a frequent monthly menstrual cycle that is
optimized to prevent infection and disease yet allow very frequent
mating - far in excess of that needed or exhibited in other mammalian
creatures who typically mate once or twice a season (there are notable
exceptions). This frequent mating without contracting bacterial or
viral diseases provides an attractive "economic" counterpart to the
male's never ending search/pursuit program - offering a potential
never ending mating resource through pair bonding.
5b) This frequent "scouring" of the uterus allows the female to offer
an attractive economic value to the male - the potential for on-demand
mating.
5c) The female program is optimized to select:
First - genetic fitness - this is the same as the male program in
principal, but is modified to look for superb maleness as defined by
genomic fitness;
Second - competitive fitness - the female in the "encounter" mode will
unlike the male pay close attention to the quality of any male's
current female partner (as defined by situational closeness and
intimacy behaviors) the quality of the female partner will assist the
observing female to evaluate the desirability of the male based on the
perceived evaluation of a competing female. While Males usually have
great difficulty in identifying "handsome" males, and in fact often
find even the thought of such an examination repugnant, females are
very easily able to evaluate and experience to some degree the
prettiness of other females. Thus, females programs are more
sophisticated than male programs.
Third - nurturing fitness - The female seeks biological and totemic
(rolex/ferrari/porsche) evidence which show that the male will be
sufficiently economically powerful to generate a probabilistic
prediction of likelihood that the male will be ABLE to provide for any
resulting offspring
The sexual pain of males is satisfied in copulation and is experienced
as resolution of a muggy afternoon followed by a thunderstorm and
clear peaceful skies. The sexual pain of females has of course never
been experienced by the author - but it is reported by female friends
of the author that when a female sees a baby (or other related
triggers) it often results in the same sexual pain (sexual desire)
that males experience, thus, when a female says by word, action or
implication "I want a baby, it is very likely that she HURTS - is in
physical pain (and psychological pain as well - the image of the
potential baby remaining in her mind and now generating a female
pursuit (of pregnancy) subroutine...and it is this PAIN that she is
trying to make go away by satisfying the program - to complete the
goal of the program - preserve and maintain the race/genome.
Fourth - loyalty fitness - the female will more highly value men who
exhibit altruistic characteristics and who are willing and able to
sufficiently fight off/suspend their selection and pursuit programs in
favor of the examining female. This is the underlying strata of
courtesy and manners
6) Both male and female engage in camouflage and deceit exercises in
order to game the couterparty's selection apparatus. Such items as
makeup, liposuction, hair pieces, shoulder pads, push up bras, jewelry
etc are all used to increase the probability of selection by appealing
intuitively to the program. Females are FAR more aware of the
existence of the male program and are expert at its manipulation -
which explains why the preponderance of beauty enhancement efforts are
performed by females. Males on the other hand become aware that
females are susceptible to power totems such as musculature, money and
power totems (head waiter knows you by name and takes you to "your"
table. Thus, the program brought into existence symbols of power and
claims on future survival assets are pursued and ultimately grown in
quantity and kind. Wealth - defined as acquiring and maintaining
possession of the best child producing "face/body" and its pursuit -
come into existence
7) The male's biological program - fulfilled in copulation mainly -
never ends. The female program continues as from puberty UNTIL
childbirth. Then, the character of the female program changes utterly.
It is no longer biased to reduce the pain of not being pregnant and
thus there is significantly less drive to copulate. Other factors
sustain the relationship (if successful) such as need to maintain the
loyalty of and provisioning and protection by the male. As societies
of humans become more and more "civilized", the powerful males and all
females engage in efforts to coerce loyalty through law and culture.
The more successful such laws the higher the culture that results
until unsustainable end points begin to be reached wherein females no
longer feel a need to copulate in order to preserve male loyalty and
protection - such services being coerced or provided by the law and
instruments of society. At this point the male(s) will become
pathologically depressed and seek to satisfy the imperatives of the
program by virtual means (fantasy and pornography) or actual means
(defection - adultery, and abandonment).
This is the program that exemplifies and creates the "curve of
idolatry (or curve of concentration of attention, wealth, resources,
control etc) and is absolutely a form of inflation and wealth
concentration (early capitalism).
There is much more to say on this, but keep in mind that the main
point is the stealthiest of the program and the fact that - it is
NEVER turned off! The fact that it never gets turned off creates more
pain, suffering, novelty, war, delight, despair, longings, loneliness,
euphoria than anything else there is. It is THE basis of economies.
The primary purpose of LAW is to provisionally defeat this program's
ongoing imperatives. Yet, at bottom, the program is merely ensuring
that the genetic health of the race is preserved and prospered.
What does all of the above have to do with simulflation? It is of
course sex and human consciousness that gave rise to SPECIES
DEFLATION. No more Dodo birds, Tanzanian tigers, passenger pigeons and
oh so many other species that bit the dust due to human over hunting,
over farming, wars, development etc etc. Here's the list of bird
species just on Hawaii that have gone extinct in the just the last two
hundred years http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/endangered/ext-birds.html
I'm NOT judging that this is bad or good. I simply say it happens and
is a form of deflation. The species deflation gives room for the
novelty of the next paradigm. What is inflated is the multiplicity of
new things that consciousness brought about. Language, Law, property,
farming, war, religion, symbology, physics, Mad Magazine and yes,
money.
doesn't work for me...i want more!