According to my own calculations, it can add as much as a half-point to our scores -- which, especially for those of us not born in the upper-upper registers of the 10-point attractiveness scale, is statistically significant.
This is the whole point and attractiveness of it in a world where identity politics not to mention ethno-politics have done and are doing enormous harm".
A picture of a doll's head and shoulders emerging from a cardboard box drives home the point: female attractiveness as pure commodity.
As some of you might heard, this Ibaraki-prefecture got the lowest attention point at "Attractiveness ranking" for two years in row.
These adolescents rated the four photographs on a 7-point overall attractiveness scale.
I see a face at the end of a sentence, I start lopping off IQ and attractiveness points for the person who wrote it.
Inner Paris has been polished to a point of hyper-attractiveness, whether in a luxe form meant to draw oligarchs to the five-star hotels there (after yesterday's five-star hotel in Dubai and before tomorrow's five-star hotel in London) or in the kitsch form exemplified by the groaning weight of tourist relics.
Our results specify the functions of evaluative structures in the context of food attractiveness, and point to a complex neural representation of dish qualities which contribute to state-dependent value.
Following scanning, subjects were asked to rate each face on a 9-point Likert scale of attractiveness (1 = extremely unattractive; 5 = average; 9 = extremely attractive).
Employing price data from PintPrice.com, Schamel (2009) finds that a one-point increase in the attractiveness of the city increases the price of beer by about 8 cents and that the relative price level in a city is positively correlated with a beer's price.
Before you accuse me of crassly objectifying people cursed with physical attractiveness, I should point out that such objectification is a major theme of "Picnic," which seemed the last word in sexual frankness when it opened on Broadway 60 years ago, featuring the torso of Ralph Meeker.
