AN AVERAGE FACE IS AN ATTRACTIVE FACE

OF2-5/22/01 7:25AM AN AVERAGE FACE IS AN ATTRACTIVE FACE

The Osgood File. I'm Charles Osgood.
Adam Rubenstein a psychology professor at the college of William and Mary has used computer image morphing to see what it is about a human face that makes us regard it as attractive. And it turns out that what we like the most is averageness.

SOT: "The closer a face is to a mathematical average of a population of faces the more attractive it's going to be considered.":07

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Adam Rubenstein's new study of face attractiveness shows that we put a premium on averageness.

SOT: "We have a tendency to consider that average to be a standard by which we judge other faces." :07

Earlier studies done without computer morphing concluded that the best eye width is three tenths of the width of the face, chin length one 5th the height of the face visible eyeball 1/14 the height of the face and the moth 50% of the width of the face measure at mouth level. This inspired my love poem to a beautiful woman. May darling whenever I look in your eyes you transport me to some magic place for the width of those lovely and wonderful eyes is 3 tenths of the width of your face. When I gaze on the wondrous features I love you can't know how much rapture I'm in, when I realize that one-fifth the height of that face is exactly the length of your chin. Those eyes so hypnotic they're like a narcotic a window to infinite space with a clout like a highball your visible eyeball is one fourteenth the height of your face. But now with computers to show me the way more than ever I gaze on your features today and I know that the reason my heart always melts is that your face is so much like everyone else. It's the loveliest face I can ever recall since there's nothing distinctive about you at all. You're looks are so average it gives me a thrill and I love you because you're so run of the mill.
The Osgood File. Charles Osgood on the CBS Radio Network.

The Osgood File. May 23rd, 2001.

May darling whenever I look in your eyes
you transport me to some magic place
for the width of those lovely and wonderful eyes
is 3 tenths of the width of your face.
When I gaze on the wondrous features
I love you can't know how much rapture I'm in,
when I realize that one-fifth the height of that face
is exactly the length of your chin.
Those eyes so hypnotic they're like a narcotic
a window to infinite space with a clout
like a highball your visible eyeball
is one fourteenth the height of your face.
But now with computers to show me the way
more than ever I gaze on your features today
and I know that the reason my heart always melts
is that your face is so much like everyone else.
It's the loveliest face I can ever recall
since there's nothing distinctive about you at all.
You're looks are so average it gives me a thrill
and I love you because you're so run of the mill.