No, I don't mean you should do that. I mean you should apply location theory. Maybe you think that Alex's claims don't adjust for the nationality or ethnicities of the women under consideration. Pick then a city of your choice in a country of your choice. Ask where, in that city, can the beautiful women be found. Will you find them in the most globalized parts of the chosen city? Probably so. Will the least globalized parts of the city have less attractive women or perhaps even the least attractive women?
I also believe, in accord with my previous hypothesis, that you'll find the most beautiful women in the parts of the city where different income classes mix and there is lots of inequality among passersby. That's in a museum, or in the Village, not in a Tiffany store or even in most of the upper East Side.
I think about location theory a lot.
I was born in city named Ostrava, at the east of the Czech Republic, and I lived there until 18; I regularly visit my relatives there.
Ostrava is an industrial city which grew very rapidly:
year 1800 … 1.500 inhabitants
year 1900 … 100.000 inhabitants
year 1950 … 200.000 inhabitants
year 1990 … 320.000 inhabitants
year 2008 … shrinkage to cca 300.000, as the industry turned to Rust Belt-like space.
and that even contains some WWII losses (Jews, Germans). Many people moved there from the whole of former Czechoslovakia, plus Poland, plus Hungary.
The more I travel around Central Europe, the more I realize that girls in Ostrava, albeit significantly poorer than girls in Prague or Wien (the economy of Ostrava suffers from high unemployment), are nevertheless clearly better-looking. And the difference is quite noticeable.
So, that is my 0.02 USD to the debate.
out of curiosity, why attach gender to it? do you think that handsome men don’t fit this model?
@Marian:
The very high attractiveness of the young mormons in Utah disagrees with your theory.
I would say that wealth plays a bigger role than level of globalization. My neighborhood is fairly affluent and isolated in one of the big cities. The girls are infamous for their good looks from moms to h.s girl.
The most beautiful women are found in the most expensive parts of cities that attract beautiful women for legitimate (i.e., not stripping) entertainment and/or modeling careers, and that have been attracting them for generations: e.g., Milan, LA, NYC.
How to test theories of corrupted politicians
No, I don’t mean you should do that (pass a huge envelope under the table). I mean you should apply position theory. Maybe you think that Alex’s claims don’t adjust for the ideology or nationality of the politicians under consideration. Pick then a government of your choice in a country of your choice. Ask where, in that government, can the most corrupted politicians be found. Will you find them in the highest level of the hierarchy? Probably so. Will the lower levels of the hierarchy have less corrupted politicians or perhaps even some decent ones?
I also believe, in accord with my previous hyphotesis, that you´ll find the most corrupted politicians in the parts of the government where many discretionary decisions are taken and there is little or no contact among passersby. That’s in a congress, or in a presidential palace, or in an independent agency, or in the police, and also in parts of the East Side.
Historical genetic mixing should have only a weak effect: hybrid vigour fades after the first generation of hybrid offspring. If this is the most important effect, then the most beautiful people, as well as the strongest, fastest, smartest, etc., should be found in the immediate aftermath of genetic mixing.
Brazil fits. And the post-Soviet space does, too.
Beauty is a choice, and one which requires effort and resources to achieve. Il faut souffrir pour etre belle. You’re going to get beautiful women in countries and cities where women have the resources to work towards it (including dentistry, dermatology, cosmetics, fashion) and where circumstances motivate women to market themselves as primarily ornamental in function.
What is MR, Roissy-Lite?
Actually, Roissy-gamma may be more like it….
“Beauty is a choice”
Only if you’re genetically gifted to begin with. Everyone else is stuck with developing “a great personality”.
Why are the women so ugly in Berlin? Even the models in the adverts for local shops are plain. Contrast them with the models for Germany-wide businesses.
these posts on beauty all treat beauty as one dimensional. just static looks. that’s only part of it. even if you only consider the things that a stranger could sense in under ten seconds, you end up with a very long list.
I think about beautiful women a lot and I know your location theory to be a good one, especially if you are looking for available women. I should put as much thought into business contact locations but that is not as much fun.
The most “globalized” part of Chicago is the immigrant hub of Uptown. Unfortunately, Foster and Montrose Beaches in Uptown do not have women as beautiful as Oak Street Beach, which tends to feature recent Big 10 college grads.
My wife and I moved to Baton Rouge, LA in 1996 and were both taken aback by the high percentage of beautiful women. I don’t deny that there are women all over the world who are more beautiful, but I have never seen (I have only lived in 4 states in the US, but have visited more than 30) a place with a higher percentage of beautiful women than the Louisiana State University campus.
University campuses are perfect examples of places where diversity is the norm, and LSU has a very diverse student body.
I constantly see women on television or in print praised for their beauty and they are no better looking than the average student on campus.
LSU is truly an amazing place to be a student.
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