Don’t Marry a Beautiful Woman

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A new study on gender by Dr. Satoshi Kanazawa, an evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics, caught my eye.

Dr Kanazawa’s study shows that “physically attractive parents have more daughters, and less attractive parents have more sons.” In his study, Kanazawa found that beautiful women are 36% more likely to have a baby daughter than a baby son as their first child.

I used to think that baby boys and girls are distributed randomly. Thus the ratio of boy/girl at birth is closed to 50/50. I never thought that having baby girls or boys had anything to do with the looks of their parents.

Women and men are supposed to be equal in a modern society. But, China has thousands years of agrarian traditions. Sons as a major source of labor supply would bring in more income for a family. Because of this deeply rooted cultural influence, today, many Chinese families still desire a son as their first child.

Perhaps I should translate this research paper into Chinese. Under the constraint of the one-child policy, Dr. Kanazawa’s “suggestion” is, don’t marry a physically attractive woman, if you want to have a son.

Wow i never thought having a smoking hot wife would get you a bunch of girls. but what makes a girl pretty? remember beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Posted by: Daniel Neal | August 25, 2006 11:15 AM | Permalink to Comment

I agree with Daniel. Beauty is subjective.

But Kanazawa argued that "people from all societies agree on who is beautiful and who is ugly." Maybe he referred some common standards of beauty: balanced structure, smooth skin, and such.

Posted by: gt | August 25, 2006 11:56 AM | Permalink to Comment

I feel that Dr. Satoshi Kanazawa's theory is laughably flawed. Beauty is indeed, in the eye of the beholder; Many beholders equals to, MANY different interpetations as to what people consider to be "beautiful."

Posted by: Jose Moran | August 25, 2006 12:35 PM | Permalink to Comment

you are still dealing with chance, and to marry someone for thepossibility of the gender of a baby that you might have seems silly to me. marry who makes you happy. son or daughter, if you're not happy, whats the point?

Posted by: james roper | August 28, 2006 9:03 AM | Permalink to Comment

The emergence of China as an economic superpower

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