Black Women Are Not (Rated) Less Attractive!: Independent Analysis of the Add Health Dataset
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Black Women,
Scott Barry Kaufman,
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Lse Spokesman,
London School of Economics,
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Add Health,
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Adulthood,
Native American Women,
Academic Freedom,
Psychology Today,
Race,
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African American Women,
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The low convergence of ratings finding suggests that in this very large and representative dataset, beauty is mostly in the eye of the beholder. What we are looking at here are simple ratings of attractiveness by interviewers whose tastes differ rather strongly.
Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D. | Posted 07.23.2011