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they dont care because all they need to do is look at your facial symetry to gauge how well your mind is working. its a psyop by society that people dont know this is biologically how brains interpret attractiveness

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That's not how brains work. Many things cause facial asymmetry, most notably dental issues which can happen to anyone. People prefer facial symmetry and facial symmetry is correlated to good things, but as far as intellectual fitness it isn't very good. Look around at the smartest people you know and see how many of them are attractive. I'm betting that most of them are average at best. One could argue that attractive people often don't develop intellectually because there is no pressure to do so, but is it really plausible that behind every pretty face is a latent genius? I doubt it very much.

You need to segment looks by genetic pools to get an accurate read on this. So, select the most attractive of Swedish, they will be above the rest of the swedes. Select most attractive of Jewish, run the same exercise.

Again, there are more variables you need to normalize by, but this idea that facial symmetry is not an indicator of many other vectors of human performance and health is a psyop by modern society

Facial symmetry may be slightly correlated with other positive things but again, there are many causes of asymmetry. Some of them are directly counteracted with money and good upbringing, such as good dental care and avoidance of various accidents, and even direct attention paid to appearance. Furthermore, there has been at least one study where polls showed that people had lower expectations of competence from attractive scientists than unattractive ones. If you have even a tiny bit of awareness of human nature, you'll know instinctively that unattractive people are more competent in various pursuits in life than attractive ones, because they have to overcome an insidious bias against them at every turn.

In extreme cases, I think you can say that assymmetry is more correlated with worse outcomes in all kinds of things. But that's different from saying that symmetry is this big indicator of good character or intellect. It's just not. There is a psyop in society to say that looks don't matter, when they do. But let's not kid ourselves. Discrimination based on looks is 95% exactly that, and there is little correlation between looks and intellectual potential. If you look good, it's like playing life on easy mode, because everyone wants to accomodate you and not because you're better at everything. If you're not attractive, you have no choice but to cultivate higher talent because there is no other way for you to succeed.

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