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Quote Originally Posted by leo9
I'm reminded of an experiment in pre-computer days where they tried to create the "perfect face" by photographically merging a dozen film stars, and came up with someone totally average.
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There has been lab based psychological studies on this sort of thing and it was found that people on the whole find the average features the most beautiful so a woman (and man I assume) with the most average size features, ie. eyes, nose mouth etc would be seen as the most beautiful. If you see a person with a beautiful nose amid their average good looks, then it is probably an average nose.

The theory is that if someone is average they sit genetically squarely in the middle of the species and so a good bet for procreation. How true that is I don't know but that is what I read.
Oh add to that even and balanced features ie the left hand side of the face mirrors the right hand side as much as possible.

I guess this averageness can be taken through everything, breasts, hips and I suspect height but height to me seems a little dodgey in this theory. Who knows.