taw comments on Shortness is now a treatable condition - Less Wrong

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Comment author: taw 21 October 2009 04:23:42PM 0 points [-]

They were measuring person-attractiveness, not picture-attractiveness.

Reply rates depend on what person's profile says, how they act in messaging etc. A black person with similar picture-attractiveness and height will be much less overall attractive than a white person.

Feel free to ask them for uncorrected data, or picture-attractiveness by race, the effect might very well turn out to be even stronger.