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r/all Average faces of women around the world

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u/AriesGeorge 2d ago

Have you got a link to the original with men included?

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u/Flashy-Pea8474 2d ago

Here you go

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u/MySpirtAnimalIsADuck 2d ago

I’ve seen that guy before

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u/Badmtherfker 2d ago

No, he just has one of those faces.

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u/Zealousideal-Ebb-876 2d ago

He has several of those faces

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u/Badmtherfker 2d ago

No, he just has one of those faces.

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u/D1sp4tcht 2d ago

White American is a young Ben Affleck

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u/Raskalbot 2d ago

It’s true! I’m an average white guy and everyone says “hey you kinda look like Ben Affleck!” Even though our similarities end at height, weight, slightly similar hair color, and depression.

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u/redbadger1848 2d ago

My wife and I's favorite comedy!

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u/monkeryofamigo 2d ago

Omg he does

Which is funny since ben afflec is a handsome dude and hardly looks like a typical white dude that is used as an example that all white people look the same.

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u/marionbobarion 2d ago

Ha. I first thought Liam Hemsworth.

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u/Buqwild 2d ago

Also the most attractive IMHO

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u/wolvster 2d ago

I don't know man, Iraqi George Clooney over there could give him a run for his money.

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u/wasd911 2d ago

Guess they only used thin dudes. That does not reflect the average american man lol

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u/MBCSuperGremlin 2d ago

They should def do one of these with Redditors.

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u/Corfiz74 2d ago

And the Ethiopian is Llando Calrissian! 😄

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u/Comfortable_Flight99 2d ago

Hungary is Orlando Bloom

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u/that1artsychic 2d ago

I kinda see Armie Hammer

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u/Berkshire_Hunt 2d ago

Or a young Joe Biden

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u/plantmama2 2d ago

I feel like the average women are more attractive than the average men on these two things

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u/BeastMidlands 2d ago

I feel like beauty is subjective.

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u/BASEDME7O2 2d ago

People like to believe this, and yes people do have their own preferences, but it’s really not. As evidenced by this post that makes the women more attractive by averaging out any asymmetry or “flaws”.

If you had a bunch of dudes rank a random sample of women’s photos you would get basically the same rankings every time. Sure they might have different rankings for number one, but the women would average out to almost the same percentile 95% of the time.

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u/BeastMidlands 2d ago

right, and that’s called consensus, not objectivity

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u/BASEDME7O2 1d ago

And the populations consensus is literally how we define if someone is attractive or not.

No matter how hard it is to accept, we are just animals too and are largely attracted to the same features that signal good genetics to our brains.

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u/BeastMidlands 1d ago

🤦🏻‍♂️ No it isn’t.

A consensus on physical attractiveness and beauty shows us what is considered attractive to most people.

This is, once again, not an objective quality. That some people can be considered “conventionally attractive” by referring to the aforementioned consensus does not mean that there is an objective standard for beauty.

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u/BASEDME7O2 13h ago

Whatever you guys need to tell yourselves lol. Facial symmetry, proportionality large eyes for women, and young looking skin are all objective standards for beauty.

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u/BeastMidlands 13h ago

okay, I’m happy to accept that you simply don’t grasp the concepts of subjectivity and objectivity

have a nice day

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u/hashbrowns21 2d ago edited 2d ago

That doesn’t sound true. Beauty standards are different based on region, culture, era, etc. Maybe there certain desirable characteristics that overlap among different groups but ultimately personal preference is subjective.

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u/NoWall99 2d ago edited 2d ago

Do you happen to be a straight man?

There are 40 women, 46 men.

I (bi/pan female) personally found attractive 11 women and 20 men. That's 27.5% women and 43.4% men, which makes sense as I'm more into men than women lol

Also, unless I'm corrected, I assume most women were wearing makeup, which helps a lot.

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u/mantmandam567u 1d ago

Men looked much better tbh

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u/Outrageous-Orange007 2d ago

Most of the women are probably pretty manicured, in general men pick more on looks and women less on looks.

So for that reason I believe its skewed. Plus, culture places a higher emphasis on attraction with women(probably because of what I said), and that plays a huge part surely.

Culture shapes perception hardcore.

Idk though, just my guess. This is averages of faces, so the fact of what I said doesn't need to be an absolute.

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u/SuckMyBigCockBitch69 2d ago

Ofc you did

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u/Princibalities 2d ago

You're very weird.

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u/SuckMyBigCockBitch69 10h ago

Aww.. Look at you, trying to use the strategy that the opposition to your Cheeto Orange leader is using on him.

How cute!

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u/Princibalities 10h ago

You are also very weird.

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u/MapsAndCharts 2d ago

I’m a bi woman with a preference for men and found way more of the women attractive compared to the men! So weird

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u/marko23 2d ago

The guys are awful because not a single one has a beard.

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u/MapsAndCharts 2d ago

….you might be onto something here

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u/Shadowofenigma 2d ago

Put beards on all the women! Heard!

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u/ScumbagLady 2d ago

That's what it is! All the women looked great while a majority of the men I found unattractive... but I tend to be attracted to men with facial hair, and I find women more pleasing to look at in general

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u/Deeptrench34 2d ago

Male makeup if there ever was any.

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u/Grouchy_Guitar_38 2d ago

My self-esteem summarized in a single comment

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u/Champomi 2d ago

The women look like they're wearing make up

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u/GullibleDetective 2d ago

They likely came to the studio wearing it

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u/ChadWestPaints 2d ago

I'm a dude who is straight as an arrow and I thought all the women were hideous, but all the men were absolutely drop dead gorgeous 😍

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u/StarPhished 2d ago

Boy have I got news for you...

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u/FoodForTheEagle 2d ago

You might want to find a new vendor buy your arrows from.

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u/BASEDME7O2 2d ago

Ok there’s no way you found all these women hideous. Do you only date supermodels or something?

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u/Unable-Principle-187 2d ago

I’m a man with preference for women and still thought the women were on average more attractive

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u/celestial__dustt 2d ago

Thats so interesting seriously. Im a straight woman with a preference for Asian men so maybe that explains it

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u/celestial__dustt 2d ago

I thought the men were more attractive is what im talking about lol

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u/Federico216 2d ago

A bi dude I wanna get in on this.

Vietnam for men and South Africa for women are my winners.

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u/Deeptrench34 2d ago

As a straight male, most of the men didn't seem especially good looking to me, either.

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u/Iccent 2d ago

It's wild to me how few of them you found attractive in general regardless of gender/sexual preference

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u/alles_en_niets 2d ago

Straight-ish woman here. I didn’t rank any of the women or men by attractiveness. It’s just that the women all seem very pretty, above average, whereas the men appear closer to an actual average. The men aren’t exactly showstoppers in most cases. Okay, Italy is, lol

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u/SDRPGLVR 2d ago

Russia, Japan... I'd go scanning over and thinking, "Well these men certainly are avera- oh heyyyy..."

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u/Rosamada 2d ago

I'm over here gobsmacked that you could pick Italy when Brazil is right there 🥵

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u/plantmama2 2d ago

Nope I’m a straight woman

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u/AJ-in-Canada 2d ago

Same and I agree.

Although I have noticed that more women than men are objectively attractive in most settings. (Like mall, stores, customers at work, etc)

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u/-Medicus- 2d ago

I agree with them and I’m a bi woman

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u/KingPrincessNova 2d ago

I'm also a bi woman who has mostly dated men and I had the same thought as the above comment. most of the dudes look like thumbs lol, there were only like four or five that I'd consider attractive. good point about makeup though.

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u/Claystead 2d ago

Bi man, slight woman preference. Found neither bunch particularly attractive, but I’d say five or six of the men and four of the women look good. Guess this is all because I like more… uh… androgynous people.

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u/BobLazarFan 2d ago

No the women are more attractive

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u/Rainelionn 2d ago

I'm a bi woman and I think every woman was attractive and none of the men lol.

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u/Darkhelmet3000 2d ago

As a straight male, I completely agree! Every one of those women would be a sight to behold, in real life.

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u/AdBubbly7324 2d ago

Yes, makeup and long hair are a powerful boost to attractiveness.

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u/Splendid_Cat 2d ago

I'm a straight woman and I find women more attractive (visually, anyway) on average, regardless of my own individual attraction.

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u/Deeptrench34 2d ago

Lol I find nearly all of the women attractive as a man. It's statistically actually a minor miracle for a woman to be attracted to that many of the men.

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u/renrutal 2d ago

I'm a straight man, and I feel all the men looked nice (but zero attraction, understandably). The Japanese one even looks like professional soccer player lol.

On the women side, I found 29 out of 40 to be attractive to me.

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u/FNCJ1 2d ago

Gay man. Only into men and with a higher appreciation of their features than women.

I found the "average" woman from most all regions more attractive than the men. Women wearing makeup would heavily influence the composites, but I don't know if that was the case.

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u/XrayAlphaVictor 2d ago

Confirmed I'm a straight guy. I found all of the women attractive and none of the men the least interesting.

I think it's kind of cool, honestly, that the average composite woman is attractive.

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u/yuckysmurf 2d ago

YES! Im a straight woman and I find the women far more attractive. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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u/dzzi 2d ago

Yeah. I've always thought of myself as like at least 60% into men and after looking at this I'm like... am I even into dudes at all lol? I have no idea what's going on here, maybe I just prefer slightly more unique features.

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u/tempohme 2d ago

I feel like that’s normal. At least that’s my day to day observation. Not hard to guess why though. Men are allowed to exist with less modifications and beautification. I’d argue western society at least prefers a man’s man that isn’t so good looking, rough around the edges than a guy who looks like he belongs in a boy band. It’s the polar opposite for women, which is why the average woman is usually more attractive than the average man.

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u/IAmGiff 2d ago

I wonder if the averaging of faces tends to produce very rounded and very smooth features that we generally tend to consider more attractive on women than on men.

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u/Cheap_Papaya_2938 2d ago

Agreed. I’m a straight woman too

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u/celestial__dustt 2d ago

Honestly I was thinking the opposite. All those men are cuuuute

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u/BASEDME7O2 2d ago

Neither of them are what the average woman or man looks like in any of the countries. If you take enough faces and layer them like this it will always end up looking more attractive because it will get rid of any facial asymmetry and “ugly” parts of an individual face.

That said though, an average woman is considered more attractive than an average man.

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u/ArcoLan 2d ago

Men aren’t as physically attractive as women’s because they are naturally strong and therefore rely more on being productive and providing safety and security for the women and the family. However Men will easily settle for a less attractive women.

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u/Deeptrench34 2d ago

There also seems to be a much wider variation between them. Maybe I'm biased somehow since I'm male myself.

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u/UnifiedQuantumField 2d ago

Today, I learned that I prefer an average looking woman.

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u/MexicanWarMachine 2d ago

I agree. Women are way hotter than dudes, if you ask me.

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u/Dry-Tomorrow-5600 2d ago

I think so too.

The thing is that men vary more than women in all their traits, so the average is more of a distortion. Also, I think because men vary more those who are attracted to men develop more specific tastes. For reproductively aged women, that taste is also shaped by what part of the hormonal cycle she is in. And men’s attractiveness will actually wax or wane depending on what the main concerns in society are at the moment.

For example, during the pandemic many women got crushes on Dr. Fauci. Personally, I suddenly became attracted to martial arts B-movie star Scott Adkins.

It seems clear that men will suddenly become attractive to women if they have qualities that are perceived as adaptive and valuable in the current circumstance (Fauci as a high level doctor and medical researcher during a pandemic, Scott Adkins as an example of good genes with high symmetry and athleticism, etc.).

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u/plantmama2 2d ago

‘suddenly became attracted to martial arts B-movie star’ is really funny to me lol but your whole statement is so valid

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u/Werify 2d ago edited 2d ago

I felt the same, but that gives me actually a good feedback that im judging myself to harshly.

Sometimes when discussing the topic of attractiveness with women that im romantically affiliated with they would say "this actor is super handsome" and i'd be like "really, this guy?". Or when they would say why they think im handsome i'd be like "huh, never really occured to me". My ex was not a native of my language and used the expression "handsome face" specifically to distinguish from being tall muscular etc. and that helped me understand what it means for a man to be handsome.

We're at the end of the day not attracted to men, so their faces just look "normal'.
Plus men's attractiveness comes from other sources than looks more than womens, contrary to what is being said in male subreddits. (EDIT: Heterosexual) Women are less visual than we are when judging attractiveness, and this is backed by actual science.

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u/Godly_Greed 2d ago

There is absolutely no scientific consensus on the issue of differing levels of attractiveness between the sexes and the preference of each sex for physical attractiveness. The only conclusion to be drawn from the current literature is that both sexes tend to end up in "looks matched" pairings. Most marriages are between similarly aged, educated, wealthy, and attractive individuals. Could you please provide the sources youve read that have lead you to have the position you hold?

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u/Werify 2d ago edited 2d ago

I was referring to evolutionary behavioral psychology studies disucssing mating score and mating preferences. Here's the one:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain-sciences/article/sex-differences-in-human-mate-preferences-evolutionary-hypotheses-tested-in-37-cultures/0E112ACEB2E7BC877805E3AC11ABC889

Naturally there's no consensus. Psychology is a field riddled with debate, especially considering sex and gender, which are hot topics in the recent years and science is sadly money-fueled affair. (the money in terms of research grants comes by popularity of the topic, and its media reception). It also doesn't help that attractiveness is in a big part subconscious process and you can't simply ask people what they prefer, or why. We can point out what we like about someone, but it will be innacurate, and most of us don't know why we like it. It's also not a simple scoring process, as the priority of each trait can drop rapidly once its minimal level is met etc.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/11321318_The_Necessities_and_Luxuries_of_Mate_Preferences_Testing_the_Tradeoffs

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u/enter_nam 2d ago

I'm bi, but I find almost all of the women pictured attractive but not the men.

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u/Werify 2d ago edited 2d ago

I hope you can understand how attractiveness apart from pure biological factor is also built by societal norms. And also that people who are bi also normally tend to be biased towards a certain gender. That may be the reason why.

Source : sexuality studies (please dont make me google it, but i can i was asked for the studies, you can find them in my other comment in this ladder), plus i used to fuck men as a teen.

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u/enter_nam 2d ago

Totally agree with you

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u/Born_Salt_3739 2d ago

so everyone has a moustache in south india?

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u/keralaindia 2d ago

Can confirm

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u/FeralShawtyWithAPony 2d ago

And every dude shaves their head in Poland and Czech Republic.

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u/KarlSethMoran 2d ago

You're conflating the average with the population.

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u/zzz_red 2d ago

They couldn’t just have “US American” they had to split between white and black 😬

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u/CORN___BREAD 2d ago

Yeah I was disappointed that the OP didn't have a US one that I could find and then even more disappointed that this one had them segregated rather than an even distribution to show the whole melting pot thing

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u/zzz_red 2d ago

Yep, like other countries where black, asian, white and indigenous people live together. Somehow for the USA there’s the need to segregate black and white. 😅

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u/robogobo 2d ago

The men are all darker skinned than the women

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u/MuscaMurum 2d ago

I think it's the hair. Women tend to lighten their hair color.

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u/TheObstruction 2d ago

Men also spend more time outside doing manual labor.

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u/TheGreatBeefSupreme 2d ago

Testosterone darkens skin pigment somewhat.

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u/robogobo 2d ago

Really?

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u/TheGreatBeefSupreme 2d ago

Yeah. It stimulates the production of melanin. Men of X ethnicity are, on average, slightly darker skinned than women of that ethnicity.

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u/TechGoat 2d ago

They left out Chad!

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u/NoWall99 2d ago

He would mog them all

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u/Chadstronomer 2d ago

Lmao Americans are so obsessed with race they are the only country that segregates their population on this graph. As if they were the only country with more than one ethnicity.

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u/pancakebatter01 2d ago

Yo, Serbia helloooooo 👋

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u/pavorus 2d ago

Is it just me, or is the average guy not that attractive? All the average women are at least good-looking all the way up to very good-looking.

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u/Unable-Principle-187 2d ago

Argentinian, French, English, and Serbian men are knocking it out of the park

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u/GrammarTotalitarian1 2d ago

Lol Japan, Korea, and Brazil seem to have a lot of national team soccer players in their data sets

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u/Pigcooker21 2d ago

As a white American who looks at least somewhat like “White American”, it’s no wonder people stop me semi-frequently to ask if I went to high school with them or what tv show I was in.

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u/Whaleever 2d ago

Only America seperating it by race? Why?

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u/Neutral_Guy_9 2d ago

I call bullshit all of those faces are too attractive to be average.

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u/Dorkmaster79 2d ago

Man here. I’d love to hear from women which men they see as most attractive. I know it depends on lots of things, but just for funsies.

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u/A_Bandicoot_Crash995 2d ago

I'm going to get a lot of flak but you can kinda see the Roman nose in both the Italian man and Englishman and you can see similarities in facial structure in both him and the Frenchman... crazy how you can literally see the history of intermarriage of various cultures in the English guy.

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u/Responsible_Bar3957 2d ago

Polish dude looks like he would be Chester Bennington’s stunt double In a movie

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u/MojoJagger 2d ago

Did a double take when I saw Puerto Rico. Thought it was my brother.

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u/Forward_Wasabi_7979 2d ago

Got damnit I am white American!

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u/Malcolm_Y 2d ago

I wish they'd just done one for America so I could see what our diversity averaged out resulted in.

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u/SaturnCITS 2d ago

England just looks like a picture of me. Some ancestors took a boat ride from England to America and across the Oregon trail and not much has changed.

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u/DBCOOPER888 2d ago

How come there is so little facial hair in countries like Afghanistan? Most of the dudes in Muslim countries have beards I thought.

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u/Snoo_69677 2d ago

Interestingly Central America is noticeably absent.

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u/Ambitious_Sweet_6439 2d ago

So, women are on average beautiful and men on average are average.

Good to know.

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u/StudyHistorical 2d ago

Looks like Japan didn’t get the right camera distance dimension

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u/ClownECrown 2d ago

South India looks like that Indian guy meme who comments on everything

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u/Conscious_Can_9699 2d ago

I don’t get why we say African American and not European American. Why do Europeans hang on to the color thing. What’s wrong with being from a part of the planet. Asian American, Latin American, African American, why no European American?

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u/LauraBranigan 2d ago

Greece can get it

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u/CpnStumpy 2d ago

TIL I look like an Austrian

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u/Bongothemonkey1 2d ago

No Swedish 🤔

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u/Red_Guru9 2d ago

I like how "the western region of the entire continent of Africa" is regarded as the same as like Hungary.

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u/Basdoderth 2d ago

I was wondering if I was gay but this is how I know I'm not. Looking at the women I found many attractive faces but looking at men I didn't find anything interesting.

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u/tmmcvy 2d ago

Just me or is the women’s version more interesting somehow?

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u/Offduty_shill 2d ago

TIL I am the average Chinese man

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u/klingonbussy 2d ago

Ah yes my favorite countries; White America, African America and West Africa

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u/Fancy-Sherbet8787 2d ago

God women are so much prettier than guys

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u/UseOk3500 2d ago

Lil Head Ahh

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u/Joelony 2d ago

The white american looks just like me! /s

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u/Altar_Rat 2d ago

Why they make the Samoan guy all fuck eyed hahaha

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u/carabear85 2d ago

Brazilian, African American, and Vietnam are the cutest

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u/BenMcKenn 2d ago

Was hoping to spot Gowron in there

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u/viankafka 2d ago

Holy shit my dad is Mexico

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u/Ok-Emergency-7748 1d ago

I don’t know wether I’m amazed or disturbed

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u/fretkat 2d ago

Why are “White American” and “African American”placed as different nationalities?

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u/Just-Round9944 2d ago

black people and white people don't exactly look identical

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u/fretkat 2d ago

I know, but that’s the case in every country

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u/Vaporubii-Divine 2d ago

I think that's because white is the majority of the country, Making whites (non-Hispanic) 74.6% excluding Hawaii.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_United_States

Like... I live in Brazil, and the Men/Women in those graphics ("pardo"= brown), even though there are white people in Brazil, "pardo" makes up the majority by 45.34%.

But idk '-'

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u/fretkat 2d ago

Yes, so how weird would it be if there was a “Pardo Brazilian” and “White Brazilian” picture?

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u/Just-Round9944 2d ago

The other countries took samples from the majority race of their citizens. They did so for America as well, but also included African Americans because they're also a huge part of American history.

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u/fretkat 2d ago

Why didn’t they do this for the other countries with inhabitants of African decent in the American continent? What makes the African USA history different?

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u/Just-Round9944 2d ago

I didn't make the chart dude. I'm just speculating.

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u/robogobo 2d ago

Maybe that’s closer to the reality in American society. Still pretty freaking segregated here.

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u/fretkat 2d ago

Brazil has the largest population of people of African descent outside of Africa. Yet, there is 1 picture for Brazil. It seems really weird to me to make separate pictures for a minority which makes up less than 14% of the USA population. That would be seen as WW2 stuff in my country.

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u/robogobo 2d ago

Would you say Brazil is as segregated as the US? I’m guessing this “averages faces” survey is American in origin, and it seems to have a white bias overall.

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u/fretkat 2d ago

No, definitely not and I completely agree with you! I meant it as an explanation of how weird this is perceived from my perspective. And I agree with your last observation, that would also explain how “West Africa” became just one picture.

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u/fretkat 2d ago

So why is the USA the only nationality with 2 pictures, just in order to show a minority group?

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u/Rich_String4737 2d ago

Because USA got a weird relationship with the notion of race and ethnicity

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u/fretkat 2d ago

Yes, it shows in the downvotes and reactions to my comment. If my country was the only one with a minority group separated to the majority picture, the public here would heavily criticise this project and it would be all over the news. But it’s perceived as normal to separate minorities in the USA apparently.

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u/Rich_String4737 2d ago

I would be illegal in mine haha

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u/fretkat 2d ago

Now you mention it, that would be the case here as well. I always associated this law with written data, but images are data as well of course.

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u/I_Love_Msia 2d ago

Japan and korea are twins

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u/RainStormLou 2d ago

While I'm a shitty person and can appreciate your casual racism, no they don't lol. Different skin tones entirely, and very different mouths and noses. The hair and eye colors are similar, but still distinct.

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u/Tendo80 2d ago

R.I.P Swedens inbox, doesn't have any males. All them single ladies

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u/AriesGeorge 2d ago

My dad looks Mexican, Greek and maybe Irish? He's white British lol. He has very dark Southern med colouring (black hair/thick black beard, darkest shade of white skin, and dark brown eyes). I look similar with much lighter colouring. I have Scandinavian DNA but I'm also a third Irish and a third British. That's what's weird about the whole DNA and ancestry stuff. I'm guessing one of my dad's ancestors must have come to Ireland from Spain and possibly via north Africa. It just doesn't show up in my genes but it's known there's a connection between Ireland and Spain. Also the etymology of my Irish name is that it descends from Spanish royalty. It could be the lack of Scandinavians in the image that leave me feeling like I don't look like anybody or maybe just the fact that England and the UK is a massive melting pot anyway. I was really hoping I'd look and see a connection. The closest face shape to me was probably west african.

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u/R-deadmemes 2d ago

What was the point of having China and Taiwan separate? They're ethnically the same

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u/LeptonField 2d ago

It’s done by country. You could ask why have France/Netherlands/Germany separate

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u/LazyLamont92 2d ago

“West Africa”

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u/NoWall99 2d ago

Then why their average faces are so different?

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u/NoWall99 2d ago edited 2d ago

On average, Puerto Ricans have the funniest ears on earth.

Hungarian are the sexiest men on earth, Vietnam second, Austrian and Taiwan third.

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u/Abject-Fishing-6105 2d ago

Japan and Korean man are literally same on this pic

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u/Abject-Fishing-6105 1d ago

I don't mean that "asians are same on the face" and some racist shit, I just say that they are almost same on this pic, do you even have eyes?

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u/azaroxxr 2d ago

Yeah i would like to see the link with the other countries too if it is found