Men almost always agree on what women are attractive, but women are inconsistent when rating male attractiveness.Researchers had over 4,000 people study photos of males and females between ages 18 and 25 in order to score them on a 10-point scale of attractiveness. The guys generally reached a consensus on their individual ratings, giving the highest marks to women they agreed looked thin, seductive and confident.
The ladies, on the other hand, didn't paint such a clear picture of what they desired. There were many cases of gals giving high attractive scores to the same picture others had trashed with low marks.
This study also explains why homely men are more likely than homely women to have awkward "misunderstandings" when feeling compelled to approach the opposite sex.
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Tuesday 30 June
By Heavytoka
No Offense, but we all know women are indecisive....as I get smacked in the back of the head by my wife lol
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Tuesday 30 June
By Danielle
That's not it at all, heavytoka. It's simply that in general, females have been portrayed, especially in advertising, to have a single ideal form: Tall, slender, young. Men have escaped this and it's much more common for women to be able to create their own ideal.
Indecisiveness has nothing to do with it.
Tuesday 30 June
By xXChicaXx
We women aren't indecisive... we're just open-minded. We don't restrict ourselves to one single thing. It keeps things interesting. :P
Wednesday 01 July
By clemdane
Women can disagree with each other without being indecisive individually. I could be 100% sure I like stocky men with dark hair and between 45 and 55. No wavering. Another woman may like tall thin pale men with blonde hair in their late 20s. And 2,000 other women might have individual tastes as well, decisively.
It's lucky for men that collectively women like all different types. If we didn't only a very few men would ever hook up with women.
Tuesday 30 June
By Mondo
As a Man.... I look at four area's before I acknowledge beauty and that's... The eyes.. the Lips.. the Hips and the chest. and not in that order.
A beautiful girl is a beautiful girl. but a man can be attractive for different reasons
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Wednesday 01 July
By kim
dude that is so true
Tuesday 30 June
By Joel Johnston
I've been married 10+ years and I hate to say it, but its just true, my vote goes in the indecisive column... Most women just don't know what they want and even that changes from moment to moment.. Sry ladies..
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Tuesday 30 June
By Julie O'Hanlon
My husband cannot decide on which side dish to have with dinner, and women are indecisive?? I think men are much more basic about things than women. Women (not all) dig deeper into expression and try to imagine their personality.
Wednesday 01 July
By seriously, guys
I know what I think is attractive in a man: brown hair, broad shoulders, clean-cut, masculine-pretty features. women dont feel that they can be as decisive about looks because that makes them "shallow." beyond that, characteristics that make one guy unattractive (piercings, long hair, facial hair, sad eyes) for some, might be personality markers that appeal to others. women most likely find the same physical look sexually appealing (masculinity gets every girl hot), but they have learned to look for these personality markers (based on prior trial and error)in the search for a compatible mate.
did the researchers ask "who would you like to fuck?" or "who would you like to date?"
Wednesday 01 July
By Joel Johnston
I think the article refers to who men/women would like to fuck solely based on pictures. Society assumes that just because a woman looks hot, every guy would just jump in bed with her, when that (at least from my perspective,) is certainly not the case.
That said, the inference from the article is that women don't use looks to gauge their bed-mates as much as men do on the average.
However, IMHO there's a more broad concept at play here which is that men are more aggressive and ready to say Yes or No based on a smaller amount of data (a picture,) as it's a key skill in the real world. Women might call that basic or simplistic. However, on a day to day basis if you spend 1/2 hour analyzing and deciding which strategy will be best for every single decision (such as changing outfits 7 times while getting dressed in the morning,) you're not going to be very successful getting what you need done when time and resources are of the essence. As men (at least as society portrays us,) consider getting some ass a key resource, the decision is treated similarly to picking an item on the menu (again, not true in my case, but I'm also married and don't count anyways ;) .)
Women TEND to have a difficult time nailing down a decision based on a smaller data set. When it comes to something important such as bed-mates it's not necessarily a bad thing (given the risks,) just a different set of motivators.
Tuesday 30 June
By sara
Women vary in their response on what they think is sexy due to their ovulation timing. Women want more daring, sexy and rougged men when they are ovulating, then they want a more responsible man to be there for them, so they think those more natural men when they are not ovulating. http://blogcritics.org/culture/article/discovery-channels-science-of-sex-appeal/
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Wednesday 01 July
By kim
women are not indecisive. We know what we want,someone honest, sweet, funny, smart and understanding.But there are not a lot of guys like that in the world. So we have to changwe our expectations and its all wacked out. . .
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Thursday 02 July
By Drew
Actually I don't think that this has anything to do with a woman being indecisive at all. But as previous comments suggest, we all (some men, and most women lol) find different qualities attractive and some more appealing than others. For instance, if I see a gorgeous girl, the first thing I look at honestly is her facial features (eye's, smile, lips etc.). If that's all good, I check out her body (yes it's true, guys lean more towards physical attraction but it is not a deciding factor). However, I also believe that there are other qualities about a woman (other than looks) that make them equally sexy..That's not being indecisive at all..it's all about going for what appeals to you.