Average faces around the world

bluto63 · 05-06-2011 6:35pm #1

http://www.mediadump.com/hosted-id167-average-faces-from-around-the-world.html

This is pretty interesting, someone went around taking thousands of photographs of people around the world, put them into a programme and recieved an 'average' of each country. The results are pretty interesting.

Am I alone in thinking the Irish were the least attractive?

AhSureTisGrand · 05-06-2011 6:45pm

It seems the average Irish woman pulled a face for her photograph

Sonovagun · 05-06-2011 7:05pm

The average irish women doesn't smile that much!

rossie1977 · 05-06-2011 7:31pm

average woman face

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SugarHigh · 05-06-2011 7:41pm

Most attractive males English/French/american
Most attractive females Argentinian/French

Least attractive males were Indian/Korean/Wast African
Least attractive females were Irish/West African

Just imo of course.

Teyla Emmagan · 05-06-2011 7:49pm

It's the teeth that are funny on the Irish girl. Her top lip is kinda caught looking. She has a real pointy nose thing going on that you do see on a lot of Irish women though.

The Irish fella looks typical enough.

I look nothing like anyone on that.

imitation · 05-06-2011 7:52pm

I dont know how "average" these faces are, looks like he specifically targeted the 25-35 age group to begin with, and on top of that I honestly think he went with the more photogenic options.

MarkR · 05-06-2011 7:56pm

Beer Goggles.

Irish guy's iris is wonky, brings down the tone of the whole country. Reminds me of that story from newstalk.

Are Irish men ugly? Apparently the answer is yes and whats more they are 10% less attractive as Irish women. This all comes from beautifulpeople.com, an international dating website, which requires people to submit pictures of themselves in order to gain membership. So people post a photo of themselves and then others must vote on whether they are good looking enough to join the dating agency.

ScumLord · 05-06-2011 8:01pm

The American one would have been more interesting if they hadn't been separated out into race.

Rebel021 · 05-06-2011 8:13pm

Am I right in thinking most of south africa is black

[Jackass] · 05-06-2011 8:18pm

Irish women are the least attractive in the world imo. Irish men tend to be found quite attractive by foreign women however, again, imo. Particularly the body type of Irish girls, 90% very disproportionate.

I think the hottest in that were the English, Russian and American girls.

mikeruurds · 05-06-2011 8:21pm

Rebel021 wrote: »

Am I right in thinking most of south africa is black

Around 75%, so clearly that is not average. The site seems to show the average for SA as being black, so they must have it split by race like with America.

wonderfulname · 05-06-2011 9:03pm

mikeruurds wrote: »

Around 75%, so clearly that is not average. The site seems to show the average for SA as being black, so they must have it split by race like with America.

From comments on the photographers site:

YSS1 wrote:

Dragon Horse, a lot of these are being circulated with the Argentine lady listed as being South-African, leading to speculation about racism and sampling bias. For example I first saw these images here: http://jezebel.com/#!5758201/see-the-average-face-of-women-from-40-different-countries/gallery/1

Do you know which is the correct labelling?

Dragon Horse wrote:

YSS1:

The labeling on this site is correct.

These are all my images, that guy stole them and did not source it back to me (asshole). He confused the South African one with the Argentina one.

My labels are correct, his are not. I’m not racist against black people, I am black. LOL

partyatmygaff · 05-06-2011 9:20pm

[Jackass] wrote: »

Irish women are the least attractive in the world imo. Irish men tend to be found quite attractive by foreign women however, again, imo. Particularly the body type of Irish girls, 90% very disproportionate.

It's actually closer to 90.53153% don't you know....

M5 · 05-06-2011 9:27pm

imitation wrote: »

I dont know how "average" these faces are, looks like he specifically targeted the 25-35 age group to begin with, and on top of that I honestly think he went with the more photogenic options.

They are probably better looking because of out tenancy to find symmetrical features attractive. The average should produce a roughly symmetrical shape

Son Of A Vidic · 05-06-2011 10:53pm

I just love this statistical and generalisation bullshít, based on what? A software program? I mean come on ffs!

dagdha · 05-06-2011 10:58pm

Is it just me or does the Irish girl look the image of one of the women characters in The Snapper or any Roddy Doyle film for that matter.

"Packie Bonner ya ride ya!!!"

KilOit · 05-06-2011 11:05pm

Looks stupid, each photo is a real person with ****ty photoshopped squiggles around the edge to make it look like loads are layered on, average face of a nation my arse.

bluto63 · 06-06-2011 1:59am

M5 wrote: »

They are probably better looking because of out tenancy to find symmetrical features attractive. The average should produce a roughly symmetrical shape

True, koinophilia is the term for it, we seek out those without any unusual characteristics, so that's why the average face produced is quite attractive

TommyTippee · 06-06-2011 2:08am

Check out the Thai people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC_YYND1TKc

Joking aside, it's really interesting. I reckon you could guess the nationalities by looking at the faces alone.

Will try it tomorrow on some people and see.

M5 · 06-06-2011 8:43am

bluto63 wrote: »

True, koinophilia is the term for it, we seek out those without any unusual characteristics, so that's why the average face produced is quite attractive

Didnt know the term, came across the theory somewhere. Curiously enough a perfectly symmetrical face looks awful too us

Fart · 06-06-2011 9:26am

Jahsus, the Korean chap is the image of Ji Sung Park.

AhSureTisGrand · 06-06-2011 9:49am

Fart wrote: »

Jahsus, the Korean chap is the image of Ji Sung Park.

And the rest of the South Korean football team

Wibbs · 06-06-2011 10:21am

[Jackass] wrote: »

Irish men tend to be found quite attractive by foreign women however, again, imo.

That's down to personality, it ain't down to looks. Irish men are generally no lookers compared to others out there.

It's interesting alright. Some of the ones I'd be most familiar with do trigger some recognition. The French woman looks sooo french to me. The italian similarly. I'd like to try it blind to see if that's the case or just confirmation bias on my part.

Daroxtar · 06-06-2011 10:52am

Wibbs wrote: »

I'd like to try it blind to see if that's the case or just confirmation bias on my part.

Sure you wouldn't be able to see them to know:p

raveni · 06-06-2011 1:04pm

Wibbs wrote: »

That's down to personality, it ain't down to looks. Irish men are generally no lookers compared to others out there.

Also down to the accent I think.

Midnight_EG · 06-06-2011 3:18pm

The American White Male looks like Ben Affleck

wonderfulname · 06-06-2011 5:07pm

on the subject of attractiveness, the guy behind these has some random averages up on his site and I found the celebrity ones pretty interesting, shows what we're being spoon-fed;
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Average modern actor (I doubt he's put too many faces in this one)

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Average "Hot Celeb" (his words not mine)

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Average Porn Star - Random

And then there's the average humans, based on current global demographics;
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Wibbs · 06-06-2011 8:35pm

wonderfulname wrote: »

on the subject of attractiveness, the guy behind these has some random averages up on his site and I found the celebrity ones pretty interesting, shows what we're being spoon-fed;

Average modern actor (I doubt he's put too many faces in this one)

Defo Brad Pitt with some of our own Colin Farrell thrown in. It would be interesting if he merged some male faces from previous movie eras into a picture. I suspect they'd look a lot more "male" looking. Less effeminate in features which seems to be more prevalent today.

wonderfulname · 06-06-2011 10:29pm

He has done, average Golden Age Actor;
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Its not really something that appears to have required an average, maybe its just the black and white.

Average faces around the world

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