In addition to what was said already I have recently began to wonder whether "attractiveness" is as clear-cut as what one might initially assume.
For example on two different occasions when I was hanging with two different friends of mine we looked at Tinder profiles of women on my phone and both of them had almost the exact same reaction when I started swiping; "wow, you and me have really different taste in women!"
In both cases I was swiping on the women that I found to look the most attractive. Previously I might have thought that everyone would agree that these women were attractive.
People say this because they are ignoring the 90% of the factors they agree upon and so the remaining fractional differences loom large. Also photos are no substitute for real life.
Absolutely agree. I'm just saying that even if they were I think it'd be hard to measure attractiveness objectively because different people have different likes and dislikes.
However you probably are right that there are features that are considered attractive by almost everybody and that we just overlook those.
For example on two different occasions when I was hanging with two different friends of mine we looked at Tinder profiles of women on my phone and both of them had almost the exact same reaction when I started swiping; "wow, you and me have really different taste in women!"
In both cases I was swiping on the women that I found to look the most attractive. Previously I might have thought that everyone would agree that these women were attractive.