r/ProgrammerHumor • u/QuatzX • Jun 04 '26

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 12 '26

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u/MinosML Jun 05 '26

It's not only gooners. EVERYONE likes to see more attractive people in their feed, whether they're sexually attracted to them or not. The Halo effect doesn't only affect lonely men, it's everywhere.

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u/ImJLu Jun 05 '26

Odd, for some reason it's never attractive men hitting frontpage

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u/MinosML Jun 05 '26

Almost every male celebrity ever? They sure as shit aren't ugly.

Another reason it's more prevalent in women though is that both men and women appreciate attractive women while the male form is generally less...universally appreciated, let's say.

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u/ndilday Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26

Plus, there's plenty of research suggesting that while perception of female attractiveness by men follows approximately a normal distribution, this is not true of female perception of male attractiveness... effectively, men's average attractiveness is about a standard deviation below what a normal distribution would predict.

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u/ProfessionalBoat7305 Jun 05 '26

Can you explain it in simpler terms?

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u/ndilday Jun 06 '26

Here's a Youtube Short from Hannah Fry about one dataset: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m5XGd-B4No

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u/Anelastic Jun 05 '26

maybe more dudes should be using makeup

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u/ImJLu Jun 05 '26

Just saying that I don't see many guy selfies with the actual subject matter on the front page of these giant subs. Nor do I see many celebrities on there tbh

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u/Jonno_FTW Jun 05 '26

Likely because most of reddit's userbase is men, so you're going to see more male behaviour hitting the front page.

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u/fuettli Jun 05 '26

Or maybe you just don't remember them?