pookah69 opened this issue on Mar 26, 2005 ยท 13 posts
mateo_sancarlos posted Sat, 26 March 2005 at 12:15 PM
The study I saw didn't make any correlation between health and facial symmetry. Instead, test subjects were shown various paintings of faces, and they ranked the most symmetric as the most beautiful. This is a natural result, since all the people that the subjects see in real life have asymmetric faces. Studies like this are usually tied in with eugenics and theories from the 19th century, which tried (and failed) to associate head shape with various characteristics or tendencies.