Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!gummo!whuxlb!pyuxll!eisx!npoiv!npois!hogpc!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!zinfandel!joe From: joe@zinfandel.UUCP Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: What your Date Looks Like... - (nf) Message-ID: <1150@zehntel.UUCP> Date: Fri, 29-Jul-83 01:19:38 EDT Article-I.D.: zehntel.1150 Posted: Fri Jul 29 01:19:38 1983 Date-Received: Sun, 31-Jul-83 20:37:12 EDT Lines: 25 #N:zinfandel:10900031:000:1234 zinfandel!joe Jul 23 10:55:00 1983 I heard of a study done on couples, married or not, which charted the similarities between the people. Many parameters were examined like inteligence by standard measurement, career success, wealth etc. Apparently the outstanding similarity above all other possible fields of commonality was that couples were almost always closely matched in their physical attractiveness, regardless of their other traits. And this wasn't just saying Tom Sellacks rarely date Golda Meiers (sp?) or that I aught to have given her a call but that over a broad spectrum of attractiveness we seem to either home in on, or get corralled with a narrow band of possible partners. I don't even know what study this was, or the criteria of "attractiveness" they used to define the range. I'm really interested in your opinions on this. Likely? Balderdash? Ironclad? Society To Blame? Communist plot to kill us off by in-breeding? Let's have any contradictory evidence too, like: "That's all trash! My spouse of three years is so ugly he/she could stand on a parade route and make'em take a side street, but he's/she's Clarke Gable/Bernadette Peters to me!" What do you think CAMPERS? Have we got an issue? Joe Weinstein at Zehntel (415-932-6900)