Why Do Beautiful Women Sometimes Marry Unattractive Men?
It may be that the unattractive man has a lot of money, or some other compelling attribute.
But a new study by Satoshi Kanazawa, an evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics, suggests it may be a simple supply-and-demand issue: there are more beautiful women in the world than there are handsome men.Why Do Beautiful Women Sometimes Marry Unattractive Men? – FREAKONOMICS blog
「美女が醜男と結婚するのはなぜか」だって? FREAKONOMICS(邦題「ヤバい経済学」) の Steven D. Levitt が語るんだから、さぞかし面白い話が聞けるのかと思ったら、単に他人のトンデモ理論だったようだ。
It is good that Kanazawa is only a researcher and not, say, the president of Harvard. If he were, that last finding about scientists may have gotten him fired.
Why Do Beautiful Women Sometimes Marry Unattractive Men? – FREAKONOMICS blog
わざわざ記事にしたのがここ。
Study leader Satoshi Kanazawa, an evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics, said: “Physical attractiveness is good for both men and women, but it is much better for women than for men. So physically attractive parents bias their offspring sex ratio to have more daughters.”
Beautiful people have girls – NEWS.com.au
元の論文はこれで、書いたのはこやつ。
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