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Investigating the affect that Body Mass Index and Waist-to-hip Ratio has on the Perception of Female Attractiveness.
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Investigating the affect that Body Mass Index and Waist-to-hip Ratio has on the Perception of Female Attractiveness. Abstract The perception of the attractiveness of women is influenced by two major contributing factors the Waist-to-Hip ratio (WHR) and the Body Mass Index (BMI). It was concluded that at first, WHR was the more influential of the two, however after further investigation and more accurate regression analysis BMI was the more influential. However, together they only resulted in under 50% of the variance, suggesting that there are many other contributing factors that influence the perception of female attractiveness. Introduction The Body Mass Index (BMI) is a ratio between the height and weight of a person, calculated by the weight of the person (in kilograms) by their height squared (in metres). Waist-to-Hip Ratio (WHR) is considered to be the factor that signals female fertility and health. This is because healthy, premenstrual women deposit fat on their lower...
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