In fact, the paper did state that they were "a naive research assistant", something I missed. Apologies for this avoidable mistake. I've corrected the post.
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Lewis, M. (2012). A Facial Attractiveness Account of Gender Asymmetries in Interracial Marriage PLoS ONE, 7 (2) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031703
4 comments:
Yet another reason to like online publishing, comment and peer review... Near instant corrections!
Thanks Neo. x
A naive research assistant just sounds like a comment on the relative youth and inexperience of your average RA.
I am still having a difficult time crediting this study. It just seems that the correlation between marriage statistics and the responses to the research are not very relative.
People marry for far more complex reasons than physical attractiveness which more closely correlates to sexual attraction. Although attractiveness is biological compelling it is certainly not overwhelming.
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