FaceResearch.org has published the results of a recent experiment where experimental psychologists at the University of Glasgow in Scotland have combined the faces of women around to world to approximate the "average face" of each country. Using a modern version of the technique that Sir Francis Galton pioneered in the 1800's, multiple images of faces are aligned and composited together to form the final result.
There is already controversy surrounding the results. Some people feel that the average is "too attractive." Part of this is explained by the process. Instead of having a lot of blurry images with undefined features, this method averages the shape of the features before blending the images together. Also when blending, remember that many singular issues are "averaged away." The study also does not reveal how the participants were selected or how large the sample size actually is.
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Why no photo for Canada or the US?
Not wide enough screen shot for US
lol... that's bad...
But how come Israel is there? They are a bunch of "settlers" too, and they settled in Palestine much later than the American settlers did in America.
Would "Jewish" have been a better description? In my experience 'Israelis' do have very distinctive features, but those same features are often seen in Jewish people of other countries as well.
Jewish isn't a race. There are Ethiopian Jews, and Asian Jews, who carry the DNA. I believe what you are referring to is fair skinned Jews.
Ashkenazi Jews, probably.
I'll agree that I was mostly thinking about fair skinned Jewish people, but there is a lot of debate about whether or not "Jewish" is also a racial identity, technically. There was a book about Jewish genetics that came out last year. But you raise an interesting point and if all the different Jewish populations, especially communities that have been predominantly Jewish for many years, including ALL regions of the world, what would the composition look like? Would there actually be certain features that stood out due to having some of the same DNA lines?
Average my foot. These are all way more beautiful than 90% of the girls I see anywhere. (sorry girls)
hey guys! Did anyone else thought to google it? I did.. This isn't the completed search..Check this out.. http://imgur.com/6BCoD (from Greece)
I'm disappointed they didn't do Ireland. It would've been interesting because there's the black Irish and then the ginger Irish!
He did do Ireland in the original study. You are not seeing all the pictures in this article, just a sample. The hair colors are muted because the averages tend to wash out the minority colors like blonde and red to a mousy brown.
Why are most the african countries lumped together....?
Apparently, the author photographed the first 100 people he was able to in each country he visited. That's how he got his averages. For the people (not you) whining about why there aren't some countries represented here, he probably hasn't had a chance to visit them yet! The earth is a big ole place!
The same reason the rest of the countries are 'lumped' together. Read the captions and look at the faces in each subgroup.
none of them look like black people i know. so this article has no value for me.
Really interesting. I can pick up features in almost every one that reminds me of someone well known who hails from those countries.
Helen Mirren in Russia, Juliette Binoche in France, Nelson Mandela in South Africa, my friend Lora in Germany, Catherine Zeta Jones in Wales, etc.
What about Norway??
Incredible. Fully 80% of comments are people complaining about who/what isn't included, instead of being fascinated by the differences and commonalilties within the photos.
We really have become a nation of whining grievance mongers, eager to take offense at the tiniest provocation.
Very pretty! I wonder where the American is? They would have needed a wider frame I think.
And you can have any one of these women for about 50 euros. I'd pay for any of their company. Americans aren't here because it would just be a picture of a designer bag and some man's credit card.
I wish they all could be California girls....
....actually, they are. :)
It means on average that these people are very good looking individuals.
SOY MONICA DE ARGENTINA Y NO TIENE NADA DE MIS FACCIONES LA CHICA ARGENTINA. PERO BUENO.RESPETO SUS INVESTIGACIONES. FELICITACIONES.
I am from West Africa and I was amazed by the accuracy of the average ladies from the various parts of the continent. I noticed that you don't have the ladies from North Africa like Morocco, Libya, etc... Africa is very diverse with its people and culture.
What a horrible obssesion trying to control and "know" everything, obssesion with classify everything and everyone. It has not sense at all.
You just described science. Horrible!
My critic is not against sciencie. I am not saying "you shouldn't do science or investigations". By my comment I mean man wants classify everything, they think everything is measurable, it gives them a strange security. Clasification is need but we have to learn we should not do it with everything. There are things unexpected, spontaneous. It seems man can live with that.
What "control" is embodied here? and why is "knowing" bad?
I am going to say you the same i told to the first person that comment this: My critic is not against sciencie. I am not saying "you shouldn't do science or investigations". By my comment I mean man wants classify everything, they think everything is measurable, it gives them a strange security. Clasification is need but we have to learn we should not do it with everything. There are things unexpected, spontaneous. It seems man can live with that.
The project of Cortázar, an argentinian writer, is constructed around that idea: there are things that scape from classification: looking yourself in the mirror, the idea of an specific "subject". En fin...
This is rather interesting. I wonder if they could do a similar study with men's faces, as well.
They did. Google it.
Okay, I'll do that.
proud to see an Ethiopian face there. but how about another countries, like USA, Egypt?
Whats up with India and South India? Two different nations eh?
Tamils and non-Tamils.
south india is far bigger than just tamils
Hitler would have loved this...
is this how facesmash/facebook started? jus joking :))
czech girls!!!
Sicherlich richtig!
The women's faces for China and India should be left blank, because they kill so many of their daughters.
Other countries kill things too, go to war, kill other nations' daughters. By far not a majority of Chinese or Indian families have killed daughters. Why judge a whole nation? There are political, social and religious factors that cause people to make such extreme choices. If science discriminated like that, there wouldn't be any science.
the most beautiful are italian !
Agree with John P. Hess, they all look pretty to me. :)
Too old. They should have averaged much younger people for these pictures- most people would have liked it more.
Im seeing alot of comments about race and these pictures being of the Indigenous population. Which I actually don't think this project was about. This project was about The Average Faces of Women Around the World, the US shouldn't have been excluded because of Immigrants, this is about the average face of each country Now! Not what it may have looked like before immigrants, because ultimately when was that? who could give an exact date? I'm a South African through birth, this is my country, no more than the next guy who calls this place home, if its the average you are looking for, the picture above of the beautiful woman representing our Stunning country looks perfectly average.
My country is full of Immigrants from surrounding countries. infact most of our tribes here such as the Zulu's and Xhosa's are immigrants themselves, from further up into Africa. No one argues that they shouldn't belong in these pictures, they were born here, they have their homes here, they are apart of this country, and so never should an immigrant be looked down on, they are made of the same stuff you are, and as we can see from the pictures above they are beautiful.
Lets stop being Xenophobic idiots and appreciate the beauty in our diversity.
Average? I guess only beautiful women submitted their photos for this research. There are also certain ethnic features which aren't evident in these photos. Notice how there's no hook in the German nose, and the nose of the Dutch women is so tiny.
Mathematically average people are above average in attractiveness.
Why did they not do the white south africans? There are white people here you know.