Look out guys - Study says Women are happier with Ugly men!

[skeptical]

Study: Women Happier With Ugly Men
New Research Yields Surprising Results
Last Edited: Tuesday, 25 Mar 2008, 10:25 AM CDT
Created: Tuesday, 25 Mar 2008, 7:44 AM CDT

NEW YORK (MyFoxNational) -- Finally, there's some good news for ugly men.

New research shows that the best marriages are those made up of women who marry less attractive men. The study results were published in the Journal of Family Psychology (subscription required).

More than 80 couples who married within the last six months participated in the research.

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Opinions seem to be divided. If it's true hope you guys make your wives happy!:D

[Athena]

Well, theoretically, a less attractive male may try harder on a daily bases to please a woman he considers out of his league, and may also be less likely to stray.

[skeptical]

I have to agree with you there. They are just so Damn Happy to have someone it improves the way they treat you 100 percent. I am in no way implying that my husband is ugly. He's not. I have however, dated ugly guys in the past. I just wasn't . . . . satisfied? with them.

[swivel]

I've looked over the study and it is fundamentally flawed. There is no control for the direction of causality.

I could just as easily conclude that happy women tend to marry less-attractive men. This makes more sense, as happy women would have less need of a trophy to be used to boost their egos by driving the opinion of their social circles.

I've seen a half-dozen studies in just the last few weeks that I've dismissed for this very error. Which is sad, because it is elementary to control for one variable and determine causality, rather than pinning conclusions on correlation.

[skeptical]

I've looked over the study and it is fundamentally flawed. There is no control for the direction of causality.

I've seen a half-dozen studies in just the last few weeks that I've dismissed for this very error. Which is sad, because it is elementary to control for one variable and determine causality, rather than pinning conclusions on correlation.

How did ya get so smart Swivel?:D You just might be right. I love a man who uses big words and sounds so smart!:lol:

[gprime]

Now, if only this proved more true in general dating among women my age. :erf:

[Jaded]

Not to sound cliche, but I'm gonna anyways. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, or ummmmm, beerholder in some cases. I for one, have dated many men that my friends thought were unattractive but that I thought were fuckin HOT!! And I have thought that some of their boyfriends were coyote ugly. I have never considered anyone that I was with to be ugly...looks-wise anyways. (I have known some that were pretty fuckin ugly inside). I guess what I'm trying to say is this....how can someone else possibly judge what one person finds attractive? Much less, do a study on it? Maybe I'm not shallow enough for looks to matter that much....to me, it's the whole package. Make sense? Probably not.... ;)

[skeptical]

Maybe I'm not shallow enough for looks to matter that much....to me, it's the whole package. Make sense? Probably not.... ;)

Makes perfect sense. It's definitely the whole package that matters and if they just happen to be double throw down fine, then that's just a nice side bonus.:D

[swivel]

Not to sound cliche, but I'm gonna anyways. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, or ummmmm, beerholder in some cases.

That's true, but it turns out that the "beholders" all agree!

There are universal absolutes when it comes to "beauty". In our mates, we all prefer symmetry. This is an aesthetic sense that works on the genetic level (and is true for other animals as well, so it isn't cultural). Symmetry is a sign of genetic health and stability, which is what we look for in a mate. This also explains why we are attracted to the perfect "average".

Researches were surprised when they conducted the following experiment: They took hundreds of faces of men and women and showed them to the opposite sex. They had the faces rated for attractiveness. What the choosers didn't know was that many of the faces were "averages" of many of the faces. Using the same CGI that lets you morph a cat into a person, these faces were morphs of many faces. The faces that "won" in both sets of groups, to a very high statistical margin, were the faces that averaged the entire group. The safest place in the gene pool is away from the edges, naturally. We have long-ago (before becoming hominid) developed a distaste for the extremes.

The differences we DO feel are post-hoc explanations for our settling. We tell ourselves that we love extremely hairy men, or very fat women, or really short people because that is all we can get, and must explain away our reality, rather than our preference. This is also why we encounter the hypocritical scenario where the ugly kid laments the fact that people place too high a value on looks. Rather than adopting their own philosophy, and seeking happiness with someone even uglier than they are, they resort to guilt in an attempt to win the affection of someone that THEY find attractive.

Also of interest is the universal human attraction to things with juvenile features. Wide eyes, pink skin, docile behavior... current theory is that this is an adaptation developed by infants, which survives in adults, and confers advantage BACK to the gene in other infants with the same traits. Traits and attraction to those traits develop concurrently (which explains extremes like the peacock feathers). The idea is that so many mothers died in child-birth that this trait guaranteed that the tribe would not abandon the newborn. Since the cranium/hip problem is unique to humans, this could be a tendency that only we have, and will ever have.

[Dark Star]

Well, theoretically, a less attractive male may try harder on a daily bases to please a woman he considers out of his league, and may also be less likely to stray.
Just my own damn personal experience here with that statement.;)

Husband #1 A nice looking guy. (Cheated):mad:
Husband #2 Nice on the inside, not so cute on the outside. (Cheated):mad:
Husband #3 In my eyes pretty damn gorgeous. (Cheated):eek:

The Hip just wanted a damn monogamous marriage. I don't care what the fuck he looks like, if the dude could keep his dick in his pants...sounds like a keeper to me.:D