You just reminded me of this study, which explicitly included eye colour among the factors it looked at, and which found that blue-eyed men were significantly higher rated in Portugal and Brazil, while blue-eyed women were notably higher rated than brown-eyed ones in Turkey. There were 60 photos of both men and women, and they were only rated by opposite-gender people in each of the 10 countries included in the study.
Research on the perception of faces typically assumes that there are some universal values of attractiveness which are shared across individuals and cultures. The perception of attractiveness may, however, vary across cultures due to local differences in both facial morphology and standards of...
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Also, you just made me realize that I haven't looked deep into the differences for eye colours, even though I downloaded the dataset with the photos and their ratings over a year ago or so.
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The study used a 1-7 scale, so to convert it to the 1-10 used here and generally when talking about looks, I had to (again, this isn't the first time I'm posting about it) use the 1.5*x-0.5 formula ChatGPT gave me. Those are the larger figures to the right of the named ones.
Brown and blue-eyed Czech men were rated almost equally by Czech women. However, when rated by Brazilian women, the former were rated 0,88 points higher and the latter 1,39 points higher, so the blue-eyed ones got about
half a point SMV boost thanks to their eye colour, stacked on top of the SMV boost they got thanks to their whiteness.
Then it gets more interesting when you look at the other European countries there. Two Northern ones, Sweden and Estonia; and two Southern ones, Romania and Portugal. There, because Slavpill is brutal and Slavic men are
painfully unattractive to Western European women (by which I mean all non-Eastern European ones), brown-eyed Czech men were on average rated 0,87 SMV points lower than in their country, while the blue-eyed ones were rated 0,68 SMV points lower, so the blue-eyed ones' eye color cushioned their Slavic failo by about
0,2 SMV points. And that, mind you, is with Portugal included among those four countries, despite also being a country where blue-eyed men were rated notably higher on average than brown-eyed ones. With it excluded, I can imagine the Slavic failo would get cushioned just by 0,1 SMV points, if at all (I'll have to check it later.)
Interestingly, that means that brown-eyed Czechs got a whiteness halo in Brazil that was equivalent to their Slavic failo in Europe, both being around 0,87 SMV points, just in opposite directions
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And finally, looking at their ratings by Brazilian and European women, the former ranked brown-eyed Czech men on average 1,75 SMV points higher than the latter, while blue-eyed ones were rated by them 2,06 SMV points higher than European foids rated them, meaning that the blue-eyed ones' SMV was boosted by
0,3 points solely due to their eye colour in this comparison, which surprised me that it was actually smaller than just the CZE and BRA difference.
So yeah, all of that to say that I guess the 0,5 blue eyes SMV boost is probably the best answer there
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