'BLACK WOMEN ARE LESS ATTRACTIVE THAN OTHERS'!!!!!!!!!

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'Black women are less attractive than others': Controversial LSE psychologist sparks backlash with his 'scientific' findings
By Daily Mail Reporter

18th May 2011



A controversial psychologist has caused outrage after publishing an article claiming black women are less attractive than those of other races.

Satoshi Kanazawa, an evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics, attempts to justify his theory using scientific methods in an astonishing blog post on Psychology Today.

Using findings from a study of physical attractiveness by Add Health, he claims the results show that 'black women are... far less attractive than white, Asian, and Native American women.'

He then tries to come up with reasons for his perception of the report.

'Black women are on average much heavier than nonblack women,' he says.

'However, this is not the reason black women are less physically attractive than nonblack women.'

Kanazawa also uses genetic reasoning to try to add some weight to his theory.

'Because they have existed much longer in human evolutionary history, Africans have more mutations in their genomes than other races,' he says.

He then realises that this contradicts the findings of the report - which claims that black men are more attractive than those of other races.

'But since both black women and black men have higher mutation loads, it cannot explain why only black women are less physically attractive, while black men are, if anything, more attractive.'

Kanazawa eventually settles on hormonal reasons to back up his theory.


'The only thing I can think of that might potentially explain the lower average level of physical attractiveness among black women is testosterone,' he says.

'Africans on average have higher levels of testosterone than other races... women with higher levels of testosterone have more masculine features and are therefore less physically attractive.'

The post has since been removed from the Psychology Today amid a backlash.

A writer at The Root described the piece as 'so outrageous that we almost thought it was a hoax of some sort'.
The website's editor-in-chief, Kaja Perina, has so far not issued an apology but told NPR: 'Our bloggers are credential[ed] social scientists and for this reason they are invited to post to the site on topics of their choosing.


'We in turn reserve the right to remove posts for any number of reasons. Because the post was not commissioned or solicited by PT (in contrast to a magazine article), there was no editorial intent to address questions of race and physical attractiveness.'

Kanazawa has an online column on Psychology Today called 'A Look at the Hard Truths About Human Nature'.

It includes posts with titles such as: 'Are All Women Essentially Prostitutes?', 'If Beautiful People Have Daughters, Why Do Posh and Becks Have Three Sons?', 'More Intelligent People Are More Likely to Binge Drink and Get Drunk' and 'Girls Are More Intelligent Than Boys, But Men Are More Intelligent Than Women'.


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This isn't the first time Dr. Kanazawa has made such outrageous claims that border racism. He's always been under fire for linking everything from poverty & war to low IQ's in people of African descent, while attributing everything positive such as excellence in science & mathematics to Asian culture. He often times picks very over-the-top titles for his research articles and goes for the 'wow' effect....ermm, an attention-hog. Surprised a reputable journal like Psychology Today would publish such hogwash though, he doesn't deserve the attention given to him.