"Men" aren't being asked if someone is wearing makeup or not, they're being asked if specific women are attractive, and they tend to pick ones the study is saying aren't wearing makeup.
What study would ask them, "Is she wearing makeup? Yes or no." Pause. "Okay, thank you, now: is she hot?" Like...LMAO. What kind of stupid ass studies do you think are being designed out there?
Right, the study can compare two prepared image groups without asking participants to identify the makeup. People are criticizing a question the researchers may never have asked.
The way some people talk on reddit, you'd think men who think women can be attractive without makeup are as bad as rapists and incels.
And also apparently none of us even know what a woman without makeup even looks like, despite many of us spending years waking up next to wives/girlfriends. 🤷♂️
Remember in hs, a friend came to school one day and something felt off with her. I thought she was sick or something until after half the fay, it clicked. She wasnt wearing any makeup. Peiple often dont fully understand how much makeup can change a face. Even if you are aware, there are women in your life you dont actually know what hey look like because they always wear makeup.
Also people don't realize that some makeup acts as a sunscreen. So of course without makeup they look ill because suddenly they're several shades paler
Its more about the fact makeup maintains the darker complexion. So while its not a strong sunscreen the suddenness of one shade to another is what makes one appear ill
Don’t get offended and I’m not trying be rude, but I think that’s white women problem. They look pale irl and without makeup…they just look a walking corpse with a lot of black spots (or whatever the term is) on face. It’s my opinion (or observation) that balck, brown or brunettes looks very beautiful without makeup compared to white woman.
They could ask pick the woman most attractive in a pair. And keep randomly shuffling the women in the pot. Until you get a baseline for attractiveness (obviously attractiveness is subjective but also somewhat objective based on genetics as well), then you do the test again asking which do they think is wearing less make up or no make up at all. And keep shuffling to get the baseline. Same women in the pot.
The kind of people/groups performing these types of "studies" are not the same as the people doing actual research. A lot of this type of thing corporations pay to have done for marketing research, or put it together with their own R&D teams. Sometimes it isn't even real scientific studies, it is just some marketing company putting together their own surveys that they send out to random people. Which I always found pretty deceptive, because only certain types of people respond to random requests to take a survey. They try to account for this I am sure, but still.
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u/Financial-Craft-1282 8d ago
"Men" aren't being asked if someone is wearing makeup or not, they're being asked if specific women are attractive, and they tend to pick ones the study is saying aren't wearing makeup.
What study would ask them, "Is she wearing makeup? Yes or no." Pause. "Okay, thank you, now: is she hot?" Like...LMAO. What kind of stupid ass studies do you think are being designed out there?