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Every piece of the human body serves some purpose... There is no wasted space within the Human Body.

 

Except... Earlobes.

 

The only piece of the human anatomy that doesn't serve any purpose is the human earlobe fatty part,

Perhaps thats why so many people try to decorate it with fancy jewelry..

 

Do You like fancy diamond earrings in your ears ??

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Every piece of the human body serves some purpose... There is no wasted space within the Human Body.

 

Except... Earlobes.

 

The only piece of the human anatomy that doesn't serve any purpose is the human earlobe fatty part,

 

Hardly, dear. It focuses sound waves. You'll understand this a bit better when you get old and start cupping your hand around your ear and say, "what's that sonny?"

 

Perhaps thats why so many people try to decorate it with fancy jewelry..

 

Do You like fancy diamond earrings in your ears ??

 

Yes! Absolutely! Dangly silver and turquoise are my usual style though.

 

 

A kiss may be grand but it won't pay the rental, :phones:
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Eyebrows are important to face recognition.

 

A study done by MIT found that people had more trouble correctly identifying the faces of people they knew when they were presented with images of them missing their eyebrows. Thus, researchers concluded that brows may be more important for facial recognition than eyes themselves.

 

Eyebrows emphasize our communications and speech.

 

Brows help us signal emotions, but they’re also on autopilot: As the pitch of your voice rises, so do your eyebrows and vice versa. Not only that but when you make an expression without thinking, like when you’re surprised, eyebrows move in a way that’s symmetrical to each other. Conversely, when you make what’s called an ‘intended’ expression, like suspicion and curiosity, your brows will furrow asymmetrically.

 

 
The shape of our eyebrows has been observed to correlate to certain personality traits.
 
According to the book Amazing Face Reading by Mac Fuller, J.D., the type of eyebrow you have defines who you are. Curved eyebrows indicate someone who is people-oriented and needs real-world examples to understand a problem, while straight eyebrows imply that someone is more direct, factual, and logical, thriving on technical details. Angled eyebrows, Fuller says, show someone who likes to be right and strives to be mentally in-control, no matter the situation.
 

 

 
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Eyebrows are important to face recognition.

:thumbs_up I had this thought then I first saw the thread.

 

I’ve known folk who occasionally shave off their eyebrows – some competitive swimmers, a community that has a lot of strange ideas about shaving, some just general freaks who like looking it – and I’m always disoriented when I see them just after they’ve done it, before the hair has had a chance to grow back even a “shadow”.

 

I’m also reminded of how important eyebrows seem to be to roboticists trying to make machines that interact well with people – remember MIT’s “Kismet” robot face from 15+ years ago?

 

 

The shape of our eyebrows has been observed to correlate to certain personality traits.

I’m skeptical of this claim, which appears to be from Amazing Face Reading: An Illustrated Encyclopedia for Reading Faces, written 1997 by Mac Fuller and some others. Fuller appears to by a lawyer (JD) who runs a company that teaches face reading in classes ranging in cost from $40 for a 3 hrs to $550 for 14 hrs over 3 days. I don’t doubt that Fuller and his instructors teach some useful techniques, but doubt that analyzing peoples personalities by the shape and position of their eyebrows (or forehead shape, which the book’s preview show as another criteria used) are among them.

 

This review which calls Amazing Face ReadingPhrenology for the '90s” and “nothing but pseudoscientific nonsense”, rings true to me.

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I’m skeptical of this claim, which appears to be from Amazing Face Reading: An Illustrated Encyclopedia for Reading Faces, written 1997 by Mac Fuller and some others. Fuller appears to by a lawyer (JD) who runs a company that teaches face reading in classes ranging in cost from $40 for a 3 hrs to $550 for 14 hrs over 3 days. I don’t doubt that Fuller and his instructors teach some useful techniques, but doubt that analyzing peoples personalities by the shape and position of their eyebrows (or forehead shape, which the book’s preview show as another criteria used) are among them.

 

This review which calls Amazing Face ReadingPhrenology for the '90s” and “nothing but pseudoscientific nonsense”, rings true to me.

 

You did notice that I used the words "observed to correlate" when quoting that portion of the article?

 

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You did notice that I used the words "observed to correlate" when quoting that portion of the article?

I did notice that, and also know you to be scientifically well-grounded enough not to take Fuller’s facereading rules as proven science. I just felt duty-to-science bound to call out that “observed to correlate” by someone doing a well-controlled scientific study, and by people independently reproducing the study, is very different than “observed to correlate” by the writers of a personal/ professional communication self-help book. The former is good science, the latter bad, and depending on how its worded, possible pseudoscience. From what I was able to read of Fuller’s book, it’s authors don’t seem to be trying to support their head and eyebrow shape reading as scientific verified, so can charitably called merely bad science rather than pseudoscience, but sentences such as these:

In facing reading, the shape of the forehead can indicate a great deal about one’s thought processes and problem solving style. It’s not surprising that the forehead, which covers the frontal lobe of the brain, is an indicator of your typical style of thinking

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The pattern and shape of the left eyebrow indicates our mental outlook in our personal life while the right eyebrow reflects our mental outlook in our external or business world.

, from Amazing Face Reading, should make a science-minded reader cringe!

 

I’m nearly certain that embracing personality judging rules like these are worse using no learned techniques at all. As its authors note in AFR, we’re all natural, intuitive face readers. It’s possible we intuitively make judgments about peoples personalities from the shape of their heads and eyebrows using rule similar to the ones in AFR. For example, some faces “look smart” while others “look stupid”. These appearances, however, can be deceiving – were this not the case, it wouldn’t be possible for movie makers to select actors and use make up and costumes to make them appear more or less intelligent in the movie than they are in life.

 

In my experience, “facereading” is mostly effective for sensing people’s emotions. Reading “deeper” personality traits from physical appearances is, I think, unreliable. The best training should teach you not to attempt it, but rather use verbal and nonverbal communication skills to build a model of others’ personalities.

 

Here’s a little impromptu test. Look at this face:

If you don't recognize this person, would you say he is methodical or impulsive person? Above or below average intelligence? How much?

 

 

It’s a picture of Albert Einstein ca 1904-1905, the year he wrote the Annus mirabilis papers.

 

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