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- Dr. Eugen Wassiliwizky, research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, compiled the largest facial attractiveness dataset, covering 52 studies in 76 countries.
- The dataset holds 1.5 million ratings of 17,000 faces by nearly 30,000 raters, showing female faces rate higher than about 60 % of male faces.
- The gender gap, strongest in the West and across all sexual orientations, narrows from age 18 and vanishes by age 80 as facial differences shrink.
