Shit you is what I do not at this present moment do:
A new study supports the idea that super models flock together while individuals lacking the perfect face and body also stick together.
“Beautiful people marry beautiful people and less beautiful people marry less beautiful people,” said Dan Ariely,* a professor of behavioral economics at MIT’s Program in Media Arts and Sciences and Sloan School of Management.
That can’t be right, can it? (h/t Hot Air)
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Women are better than men in describing their feelings and those of their romantic partners than are men
I love you, you love meat . . .
Meh. The whole “ugly rocker marries supermodel” phenomenon belies this conclusion. I’m STILL bitter about Paulina Porizkova choosing that stiff Ocasek over me.
Let me guess: This study was financed by an earmark from Henry Waxman. Right? RIGHT???!
Well I guess this explains why no supermodels joined Cindy Sheehan at Camp Casey.
Jonathon – Ugly obscenely rich rocker is a more accurate description. Amazing how much better looking someone like Ocasek becomes.
Henry Waxman looks like he should be the Mayor of Whoville.
Or Hooville, whichever one is the town in the Grinch That Stole Christmas.
Heh, Whoville. He carves the roast beast….
Truly a radio face.
Darwin might say that selection is at work, to the advantage of the most suitable finches.
But, with enough cash, even a grossbeak can find a nice Painted Firetail.
Throws his whole theory out the cage door…
Me, I’m kinda good looking, yet I stay clear of ugly chicks and hot chicks. If all women have mental problems, these have psychoses while the happier middle tend to have only neuroses.
I stay strictly in the interval (4,7) as a subset of the interval [1,10]. I hate open covers.
Some reporter asked Simon LeBon once why pop singers marry supermodels. He answered, “Because we can.”
Show me a beautiful woman and I’ll show some guy that’s tired of putting up with her shit.
That pretty much goes for all women, really. I have yet to meet one that didn’t dole out shit. Though I will admit that the hotter ones crank out more shit, because they can.
I’m just going to start billing myself as a scientist and writing research grants.
Scientific review board excerpt:
“Yes, I need the designer suits. The kind of chicks–er ‘subjects’–I’m studying know a knock-off, man.”
So there’s still one single standard for “perfect beauty” despite all the multi-culti diversity-uber-alles crap? Maybe it’s BECAUSE of the push to embrace lowered standards in the name of diversity.
(All I know is that the men the media keep telling me are ‘hawt’ are girlier and wussier than I am. Ugh.)
Kelly wrote, Show me a beautiful woman and I’ll show some guy that’s tired of putting up with her shit.
It’s simple: (1) be willing to tell women “no,” (2) walk the bitch to the curb if she can’t take it, (3) get another one.
What does John Kerry’s retarded twin brother have to do with any of this?
“Ugly obscenely rich rocker marries supermodel is more accurate…”
Oh..NOW.. you add the extra qualifier “obscenely rich”.. I’ve been waiting for my hot babe for 50 years now, banking on the “opposites attract” paradigm…and now you tell me I gotta be rich too.. ?
Leave it to the freakin rich Rethuglians to find one more way to steal some more off the working man’s plate..
Hi,
I am one of the authors of the paper mentioned here.
The general finding that people of a certain level of attractiveness marry people with a smiler level was not our conclusion — it was the starting point of our research.
What we were trying to understand was something about the ways in which people who are less attractive deal with this reality. Do they start appreciating beauty differently? do they feel they have settled? or do they change the importance they place on beauty?
For a short description of this project see:
http://predictablyirrational.com/
Best
Dan
Thanks, Dan. Please forward a picture of your wife.
(Looking forward to seeing your book. Send us an advance copy if you’d like us to review.)
Beautiful people who mate and procreate tend to have beautiful children. But, I need at least a $5million grant to study this phenomenon in great detail. The application is in the mail.
You’re kidding, right? Dan Ariely’s ego-surfing led him here??
(And, as far as “a picture of his wife” is concerned —
— naah: No point in being nasty to a Perfesser….)
“Shit you is what I do not at this present moment do”
I knew you wouldn’t, since we’re your favorite turds.
…people with a smiler level…
Them’s sose yall can drool out bof sides a yer mouf.
What we were trying to understand was something about the ways in which people who are less attractive deal with this reality.
Beer Goggles. Where do I send the bill?
Turned out, more attractive people placed more importance on physical attractiveness above other features in selecting their dates. Less attractive people placed more weight on other qualities, such as sense of humor.
“The people who are less attractive basically switch what they care about and they start caring less about beauty and more about sense of humor,” Ariely said.
You know you’re ugly if you’re not shallow. How heartbreaking.
For a picture of my wife see:
http://www.predictablyirrational.com/?page_id=5
Best
Dan
The only good thing about the annual spermodel infestation around here is that we finally have a use for the Jethro Tull cocaine mirror I won at the county fair in ’81. That’s cool and all, but once they get into your bathroom you’re screwed. Puke all over the place and someone always eats all the ex-lax.
I usually try and grow a huge zit or something at the beginning of the warm season, you know, to keep the crowds down.
“spermodel” Ha! Freud is in the keyboard.
Did Seal make that much money? Or is he hung like a fucking rhino? Because that is one ugly sonofabitch to be landing Heidi Klum.
Survey says: the latter.
Dan A.
Dude, I’ll take like half a dozen copies of that.
I can’t find it now, but there was a Sunday feature in some British newspaper or other last year about asymmetrically attractive couples, and how jarring they were to the eye. Prince Albert and Queen Victoria were one example.
By the way – joo look marvelous!
If Goldstein was as smart as these guys, he’d still be in academics.
Did you actually read any of this? The guy that did the study is like an MIT behavioral economics prof. He drives a way way better car than you. At #17 he explains a bit more about their work.
caric saw an article about fat ugly guys and hot chicks, and got all excited. Calm down, you greasy haired shirtlifter.
Pretty cowardly of you to drop in and shoot spitwads at Jeff late at night.
I would love to understand this. Someone got a grant to study why ugly people hook up with ugly people, and hot people hook up with hot people? Hint, caric. you are in the fugly category, with no room for improvement.
Now scurry back to your site, where timmah, mayo, and sparks can shine your knob. Poofter.
I’m thinkin’ Jeff’s smarter cause he doesn’t have to be in academics.
My parents were this. The young-couple pictures are ridiculous. My dad looks like Cary Grant, and my mom looks like fuckin’ John Zorn.
She must have been hung like a rhino.
Hmph! And all this time I thought it was my bad knee..
That’s true perfesser, but probably not in the way you intended it.
Crueler still… My parents were the the spitting image of John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John in Grease (Dad like Travolta.. Mom like ONJ.. for the record..) .. They were truly The Beautiful People in their youth.. and I got none of the good looks genes.. None.. No Travolta smile.. No Rhino dick.. Nothing.
Further evidence of God’s twisted sense of humor..
“Beautiful people who mate and procreate tend to have beautiful children.” But how to explain Donald Trump and his offspring?
Re: Vicky and Bertie–which is which?
Ms. Klum saw Seal in tight shorts and wanted to jump on THAT–she says.