is there any truth to this?

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― ?, Sunday, 19 January 2003 00:55 (twenty-three years ago)

oh no.

― ***1979*** (***1979***), Sunday, 19 January 2003 02:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Absolutely not - this sounds like crap research to me! I like curvy women and failing that tall ones. Neither of those words describes my mother. Also, this seems self-defeating- aren't sexually reproducing creatures supposed to key in on mates with different genes than their own, to improve diversity and therefore chance of survival? See the Sweaty T-shirt Experiment(Wedekind, 1995) for some odd details on how you avoid incest

― Tom Millar (Millar), Sunday, 19 January 2003 02:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Hrmph. I find the methodology suspect. Aesthetics is subjective stuff. And besides, as people tend to resemble their own parents, might an equally logical explanation be a tendancy to seek out partners who look like oneself.

― , Sunday, 19 January 2003 03:42 (twenty-three years ago)

my boyfriend is white, blond, and blue-eyed. my dad is not. so, no.

― sand.y, Sunday, 19 January 2003 04:55 (twenty-three years ago)

this is just plain silly, innit?

― di smith (lucylurex), Sunday, 19 January 2003 09:23 (twenty-three years ago)

My gf and my mum both have straight, dark-blonde hair. That's about it though, as far as I can tell.

― Mark C (Mark C), Sunday, 19 January 2003 17:49 (twenty-three years ago)

i thought everyone knew this — plus also ppl look like their pets!!

it's a positive feedback loop!!

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 19 January 2003 19:41 (twenty-three years ago)

No, it's absolutely true. Guess what my dad looks like?

Anyone who said "Erm, a tall, skinny, dirty, guitar-playing hippie with shoulder length dark hair, a large nose and blue eyes?" does not get a prize.

― kate, Sunday, 19 January 2003 19:47 (twenty-three years ago)

It's probably true for some people, but a lot of people deliberately avoid this sort of thing.

― Curtis Stephens, Sunday, 19 January 2003 19:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Does the fact that I'm not biologically related to my mother (i.e. I was adopted) skew this? It certainly removes the possibility of the other account, that of seeking someone resembling yourself (or an opposite-sex version, perhaps), as an explanation for the partner looking like the parent. But I don't see that my ex-wife had anything in common with my mother, except they were both of about medium height and with brown hair. That's hardly a strong similarity.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 19 January 2003 19:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Not even CLOSE in my case.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Monday, 20 January 2003 11:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Ewwww "shudder*

― smee (smee), Monday, 20 January 2003 11:45 (twenty-three years ago)

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