Weak, at best, correlation between reproductive success and attractiveness for cohort born 1937-1940

anakinskynoobi · 2020-09-23T19:50:35+00:00

Well, before the sexual revolution attractiveness had low correlation with reproductive success. I would like to see correlation between number of partners/number of sexual relationships and attractiveness now and in the future.

sadomasochrist · 2020-09-23T22:42:12+00:00

I don't think a lot of you are understanding this is about births, not SMV. It's basically saying "anyone can get some woman pregnant" in study format.

Despite there being a casual sex shift, it's not likly this is going to change dramatically in current times.

Whatever percentage of women that decide not to have kids will change, but AF men aren't going to stick around so they're still going to look for providers to rope and dope.

So take this study, adjust for childlessness expectations and I doubt it will deviate strongly.

A lot of guys need to remember women marry men they aren't attracted to ALL THE TIME.

Legitimate_Gear_3273 · 2020-09-24T19:15:12+00:00

When you define 'reproductive success' as 'amount of children' in a time where monogamy was still the standard. Yeah no suprise.

There was no birth control n shit back then.

fndo84 · 2020-09-29T15:45:17+00:00

Interesting as history, not valid for today's scenario and definition of sexual success (that is not necessarily based on reproduction alone nowadays for a great part of western society). Most men can "reproduce" nowadays, but at what cost? What are the differences in the level of investment of a non-attractive man vs an attractive man in order to achieve purely sexual (not strictly reproductive) sucess?

captaindestucto · 2020-10-26T20:41:00+00:00

sure as part of a generation where people were expected to settle down early and where there was a social penalty for not doing so.

statusincorporated · 2020-09-23T19:09:58+00:00

Abstract

Physical attractiveness has been associated with mating behavior, but its role in reproductive success of contemporary humans has received surprisingly little attention. In the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (1244 women, 997 men born between 1937 and 1940), we examined whether attractiveness assessed from photographs taken at age ∼18 years predicted the number of biological children at age 53–56 years. In women, attractiveness predicted higher reproductive success in a nonlinear fashion, so that attractive (second highest quartile) women had 16% and very attractive (highest quartile) women 6% more children than their less attractive counterparts. In men, there was a threshold effect so that men in the lowest attractiveness quartile had 13% fewer children than others who did not differ from each other in the average number of children. These associations were partly but not completely accounted for by attractive participants' increased marriage probability. A linear regression analysis indicated relatively weak directional selection gradient for attractiveness (β=0.06 in women, β=0.07 in men). These findings indicate that physical attractiveness may be associated with reproductive success in humans living in industrialized settings.

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Title	Weak, at best, correlation between reproductive success and attractiveness for cohort born 1937-1940
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