This is a hypothesis that goes back to the work of Sir Francis Galton in the 1800's. He projected the faces of many different people on to one piece of photographic film to create an average. His idea was to produce the average face of a criminal to help with crime prevention or to depict the average face of a good soldier to improve the quality of recruits. However when he showed his colleagues the results, they all unanimously agreed that the composite image produced was far more attractive than each of the component images. This lead him to think that the key to being beautiful was to be as close to average as possible.
Researchers have now developed some software which does a very similar thing but manages to create a much sharper image. As part of this research they have also managed to create the average face for women from 41 different countries. You can even make your own composite from images you upload. It's all very interesting so why not check it out for yourself.
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