STUDY: MEN DON’T MAKE PASSES AT GIRLS WHO WEAR GLASSES

A new study from the University of Jordan, published in the journal Cureus, found that people who wear glasses are seen as less intelligent, less confident and less attractive. Researchers gathered 517 college-age people in Jordan — some wore glasses and others didn’t — to find out how wearing glasses affects self-esteem measures. The participants were shown photos of four people both with and without glasses and were asked to rate the attractiveness, confidence and intelligence of the people in the photos. Images of people without glasses ranked higher than those with glasses. The participants who did wear glasses tended to give higher scores to the pictures of people with glasses, but those who didn’t wear glasses did not do the same with images without glasses. The researchers hope that this study will encourage people who actually need glasses to wear them.
* Now how in the ever-loving world did they come up with THAT conclusion?
* Study sponsored by Bausch and Lomb, the world’s largest maker of contact lenses.
* If you stop wearing glasses to be more attractive, do you get points off for squinting?
* Photos of only four people? What was the budget for this study – ten bucks?
* To encourage people to wear glasses, they published the study in teeeeeeny-tiny type.