When we saw links to this piece on Facebook we wrote it off as a hoax or a hack. The headline read, "Why Are Black Women Rated Less Physically Attractive Than Other Women ... ?"
Didn't make sense to us in the age of Beyonce and all her womanly features, which seem to be admired and emulated around the globe.
But, no, just such a blog post at Psychology Today was for real. And it set off a firestorm. It read, in part:
"... Black women are statistically no different from the "average"
respondent, and far less attractive than white, Asian,and Native American women ..."
Of course, the survey cited, the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, asked respondents for their opinions about the attractiveness of different races. Those opinions aren't scientific at all, but can be twisted by cultural norms (or ab-norms) and socialization....
...It isn't the first time Kanazawa has been accused of bending science to fit his racism. He once suggested people sub-Saharan Africa had more health-care problems because they were dumb (not because they were poor).
What confounds us is why Psychology Today would give him a regular blog, called "The Scientific Fundamentalist."
http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2011/05/black_women_attractive_psych.php
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