Cody
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Well it's time for looksmax to catch up on these things as many people have no idea what they're talking about. A lookism user Headsupdisplay deserves the credit for most of this.
What is harmony
This is something very mysterious where users can never quite put their finger on. There are definitions that it's how well features blend in together. It seems reasonable until you realize there is something fundamentally flawed with that statement.
What it implies is that features are judged not independently, meaning individual features don't matter. This is dubious when you consider that individual features make up the entire face.
What you'll notice is that top models have all their individual features above average or striking.
Likewise an incel might have features that are all lacking if you take them apart.
The ideal face
It's difficulty to determine what the ideal face would look like but what we do know is that it exists. When we scan faces we know that vertically narrow eyes are attractive and we compare any given eyes to those set of standards. So from that we know our subconscious is constantly comparing faces presented to the ideal.
What headsupdisplay has done is compiled a database of facial measurements of the most attractive men and you'll notice they don't all have the same measurements obviously but rather appear to be within range of each other. So we can't necessarily say, a chin height of 48mm is ideal but we can say the range 45-50mm is ideal since they all tend to fit that criteria.
Having that in mind, let's go back to our incel. He might have a short chin of 30mm. We will extend his chin by about 15mm so that he now fits that range of ideal. Is he still incel? Almost certainly. Does he look better? Of course.
We will now apply this same concept to the eyes. Let's swap Chico's eyes for the incel's eyes. And swap his jaw for Cavill's jaw. Also swap the incel's nose for the ideal nose. And then the mouth... Slowly the incel begins to resemble the ideal male face. Harmony or ratios weren't necessarily changed to fit the ideal. We just changed the measurements which is what really matters and the ratios just followed.
Are you going to tell me what harmony is cuntbag?
My definition of it would actually be averageness and symmetry. I've picked on that users tend to correlate harmony with pleasant faces with high degree of averageness.
Averageness is NOT having average features like cuck eyes. Averageness in well defined in Wikipedia
Composite photos of phenotypes are good example of what averageness looks like. You're essentially morphing all the individual features together where you form a face that doesn't have any extreme features like Dolph Lundgren's super masc jaw sharpness. How Dolph can still look top tier while deviating heavily from averageness? Is having extreme features desired? That's for another post on hormonal levels (including prenatal) affecting attractiveness.
Ratios
So it's much more elegant to take absolute measurements rather than ratios. Ratios are a number that it just so happen to make. For instance take body measurements for a female. Nobody asks what's her ratio when she looking for a dress to buy. Because a ratio of 0.8 doesn't tell anything about her actual size. She could be very petite and have the same ratios as some high prenatal T oversized girl. Rather we say 23 inch waist and 35 inch hip circumference. The ratio of 0.8 is a number that just so happens to make when we divide these measurements. Who cares about it.
So when we say fwhr ratio of 2 that really doesn't paint a picture as accurately as saying a midface length of 65mm and a bizygomatic distance of 130mm. The latter tells us more clearly what's going on. What if somebody had a midface length of 55mm and a bizygomatic distance of 110mm while still maintaining the ideal ratio of 2? Well now you've got someone with a ridiculously stunted appearance because of the midface length with a narrow face, far from ideal.
Just to give a more practical example of where even the number itself fails, take this model in yesterday's thread. Someone pointed out his chin was on the shorter side. Another user pointed out that his chin fits the ideal chin to philtrum ratio so it was actually perfect. Morphs showed that this wasn't the case and I could almost guarantee you his chin height would fit the measurement between 45-50mm.
Tldr What a load of bullshit nobody will read
This article was written by Cody
Cody is a PSL journalist for looksmax.me and has written countless of theses on attraction during his time at Yale University.
Well it's time for looksmax to catch up on these things as many people have no idea what they're talking about. A lookism user Headsupdisplay deserves the credit for most of this.
What is harmony
This is something very mysterious where users can never quite put their finger on. There are definitions that it's how well features blend in together. It seems reasonable until you realize there is something fundamentally flawed with that statement.
What it implies is that features are judged not independently, meaning individual features don't matter. This is dubious when you consider that individual features make up the entire face.
What you'll notice is that top models have all their individual features above average or striking.
Likewise an incel might have features that are all lacking if you take them apart.
The ideal face
It's difficulty to determine what the ideal face would look like but what we do know is that it exists. When we scan faces we know that vertically narrow eyes are attractive and we compare any given eyes to those set of standards. So from that we know our subconscious is constantly comparing faces presented to the ideal.
What headsupdisplay has done is compiled a database of facial measurements of the most attractive men and you'll notice they don't all have the same measurements obviously but rather appear to be within range of each other. So we can't necessarily say, a chin height of 48mm is ideal but we can say the range 45-50mm is ideal since they all tend to fit that criteria.
Having that in mind, let's go back to our incel. He might have a short chin of 30mm. We will extend his chin by about 15mm so that he now fits that range of ideal. Is he still incel? Almost certainly. Does he look better? Of course.
We will now apply this same concept to the eyes. Let's swap Chico's eyes for the incel's eyes. And swap his jaw for Cavill's jaw. Also swap the incel's nose for the ideal nose. And then the mouth... Slowly the incel begins to resemble the ideal male face. Harmony or ratios weren't necessarily changed to fit the ideal. We just changed the measurements which is what really matters and the ratios just followed.
Are you going to tell me what harmony is cuntbag?
My definition of it would actually be averageness and symmetry. I've picked on that users tend to correlate harmony with pleasant faces with high degree of averageness.
Averageness is NOT having average features like cuck eyes. Averageness in well defined in Wikipedia
Averageness describes the physical beauty that results from averaging the facial features of people of the same gender and approximately the same age. The majority of averageness studies have focused on photographic overlay studies of human faces, in which images are morphed together. The term "average" is used strictly to denote the technical definition of the mathematical mean. An averaged face is not unremarkable, but is, in fact, quite good looking. Nor is it typical in the sense of common or frequently occurring in the population, though it appears familiar, and is typical in the sense that it is a good example of a face that is representative of the category of faces.
Composite photos of phenotypes are good example of what averageness looks like. You're essentially morphing all the individual features together where you form a face that doesn't have any extreme features like Dolph Lundgren's super masc jaw sharpness. How Dolph can still look top tier while deviating heavily from averageness? Is having extreme features desired? That's for another post on hormonal levels (including prenatal) affecting attractiveness.
Ratios
So it's much more elegant to take absolute measurements rather than ratios. Ratios are a number that it just so happen to make. For instance take body measurements for a female. Nobody asks what's her ratio when she looking for a dress to buy. Because a ratio of 0.8 doesn't tell anything about her actual size. She could be very petite and have the same ratios as some high prenatal T oversized girl. Rather we say 23 inch waist and 35 inch hip circumference. The ratio of 0.8 is a number that just so happens to make when we divide these measurements. Who cares about it.
So when we say fwhr ratio of 2 that really doesn't paint a picture as accurately as saying a midface length of 65mm and a bizygomatic distance of 130mm. The latter tells us more clearly what's going on. What if somebody had a midface length of 55mm and a bizygomatic distance of 110mm while still maintaining the ideal ratio of 2? Well now you've got someone with a ridiculously stunted appearance because of the midface length with a narrow face, far from ideal.
Just to give a more practical example of where even the number itself fails, take this model in yesterday's thread. Someone pointed out his chin was on the shorter side. Another user pointed out that his chin fits the ideal chin to philtrum ratio so it was actually perfect. Morphs showed that this wasn't the case and I could almost guarantee you his chin height would fit the measurement between 45-50mm.
Tldr What a load of bullshit nobody will read
This article was written by Cody
Cody is a PSL journalist for looksmax.me and has written countless of theses on attraction during his time at Yale University.
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