UCLA Study: Female Democrats Hideous Trolls, Republican Congresswomen Good Looking…

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UCLA Study: Female Democrats Hideous Trolls, Republican Congresswomen Good Looking…


Example 1: Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn)http://weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/rosad-550x356.jpg



Sadly, they are even uglier on the inside.

Via HuffPo:


Republican congresswomen appear more “feminine” than their Democrat counterparts, according to a new study by UCLA psychology researchers.

“Female politicians with stereotypically feminine facial features are more likely to be Republican than Democrat, and the correlation increases the more conservative the lawmaker’s voting record,” said study author Colleen M. Carpinella, a UCLA graduate student in psychology, in an article posted to the UCLA Newsroom website.


So what makes a woman “stereotypically feminine?”

Certainly, individuals are easily biased by outside factors not related to facial characteristics, including hair style, application of cosmetics, jewelry or clothing style, said Kerri Johnson, the study’s senior author and an assistant professor of communication studies and psychology at UCLA. For this reason, the researchers used a computer program that was “immune to those influences.”

The program, called FaceGen, allows the researchers to measure more than 100 subtle dimensions including the shape of the jaw, the location of eyebrows, the placement of cheek bones, the shape of eyes and the contour of the forehead, to create a score ranging from -40 (highly male-typed) to +40 (highly female-typed).

For the study, the researchers had FaceGen analyze the portraits of members of the 111th House of Representatives, measuring how closely the facial features of each face approached the average for their gender.

The researchers also studied the faces of male politicians, although those findings were not as revealing, according to the authors. Republicans averaged a less masculine appearance than their Democrat counterparts — a finding that Carpinella said may suggest that Republican men do not have to exhibit masculinity through their appearance.

 

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http://www.rushimg.com/cimages//media/multimedia2/gopwomenvsdemwomen/1004961-1-eng-GB/GOPWomenVSDemWOmen.jpgWe knew this. But now we have SETTLED SCIENCE!!!!

 

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Study: GOP Women are More "Feminine"
September 28, 2012





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RUSH: There's a fascinating new study out that says Democrat women are more likely to look like men. Now, I have suspected this for many moons. In fact, I've gotten close to the edge -- the bounds of proprietary -- in commenting on such things over the years on this program, but it's a story from BuzzFeed. "Can You Tell a Woman's Politics By Looking At Her Face?" and I have long held that you can.



"[P]sychologists Colleen Carpinella and Kerri Johnson gave undergraduates at UCLA for a study published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. The undergrads were significantly better at guessing than would be expected by chance, and they were especially accurate with women. The likely reason, according to the study," why the UCLA students were able to identify Democrat versus Republican women by looking at 'em is...

"Republican women are more likely than Democratic ones to have stereotypically feminine facial features." Republican women look more feminine than Democrat women. That's from a UCLA study. This is not El Rushbo saying it. It's from a UCLA study where the two scientists conducted the study and had students take the tests. "In another experiment, Carpinella and Johnson used a computer program to measure how 'sex-typical' the faces of male and female Representatives were, looking at characteristics like jaw shape, lip fullness, and cheekbone placement (they discounted things like hair, makeup, and jewelry).

"They found that Republican women were more likely to have stereotypically feminine faces -- and the effect was more pronounced the more conservative their voting records were. The reverse was true for Democrats -- the more liberal their voting records, the less traditionally feminine their faces. The study authors call this 'the Michele Bachmann effect.'" I kid you not. That's what they call it: The Michele Bachmann Effect.



Now, would you like to run a test on this? By the way, it's the story that says that, not me. The story that says Democrat women more are likely to look like men. (interruption) No, they didn't close the loop and ask what do men find more attractive. Is that open for question? (interruption) In today's society you have a point. Yeah, it is an open question. But could we, say, draw some names out of a hat and apply the test of this study and see if it makes any sense? (interruption)

Well, you want to try it? Let's see. Okay. Let's see. Conservative women. Who do we know? (interruption) Okay, Michele Bachmann or Barbara Mikulski? Point proven? Okay. Uh, let's see, Sarah Palin or Big Sis, Janet Napolitano? Hmmm. Okay, give me another conservative woman. (interruption) Well, there are not enough people who are gonna know what Mary Bono looks like. Not enough people know her. Let's see. (interruption) Mia Love. Okay. Mia Love, if you've seen her, or Rosa DeLauro? Let's see. Who else can we do? Conservative women.

Think of some media types, Snerdley.

Okay. Let's see. Ummm. (interruption) Okay, who can we compare her to? Ann Coulter or Hillary Clinton? (chuckling) You want to keep going here? We're trying to establish here the scientific points made by these two psychologists at UCLA.

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