Plastic Surgeon Breaks Down What Makes Amber Heard Beautiful | Golden Ratio φ

Описание: by Jonathan Zelken MD
A generation ago, Carl Sagan predicted the Johnny Depp trial:
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or my grandchildren's time (…) when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, (…) unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.”
Is this what we have become? Yikes, why is this society so fixated on the Heard-Depp trial? Was it the tabloid-worthy sound bites? Is it because the parties are so recognizable? Or does it have something to do with the way they look? Johnny Depp is a handsome man, finally showing signs of aging. But Ms. Heard is just divine. Although time and the stress of her situation appears to have taken a bit of a toll, and perhaps she had some fillers, she still qualifies as one of the most beautiful women in the world by my standards. This is what most fascinates me. Why is Amber so beautiful?
For as long as facial plastic surgery existed, physicians and scientists have tried to decode the secret of facial beauty. Beauty is like pornography. It impossible to describe, but you know it when you see it. And beauty is a challenge to define, as intangible cultural and psychological influences play as significant a role as measurable physical features. Attempts at quantifying beauty include prototype masks and analyzing adherence to divine proportions. I keep reading news articles about a British cosmetic surgeon named Da Silva who claims that beauty is defined by the Golden ratio, phi, and that the most beautiful women have the highest percentage of such divine proportions. Though the topic is fascinating, it is absurd to think that humans are so predictable as to be attracted to features that are 1.6 times as long as they are wide. And that a single individual was able to define it beauty on a global scale. Not to mention, the “scientific article” was little more than a publicity stunt with no scientific rigor and no evidence of peer review.
Beauty and attractiveness are parameters of interpersonal perception that are related but distinct; beauty holds a more objective connotation while attraction is subject to motivational forces. Symmetric, smooth features, large eyes, and facial harmony enhance objective beauty. There is a growing literature describing methods to quantify beauty. Modern theories of averageness and group prototype imply humans are capable of recognizing incongruities from regional or global standards. Evaluation of static photographs neglects the important influence of facial dynamism.
We can only contemplate myriad reasons people like the way Amber Heard and Johnny Depp look. We respect Sir Francis Galton’s unintended discovery that a composite average face is more attractive than individual faces, but we imagine society seeks more than averageness. More than a mystical Davinci coded ratio of facial features (that neglects factors like fullness, skin tone and quality). Gestalt makes it possible to quickly evaluate beauty of digital images, but what makes some people so attractive? Spoiler alert: it has little to do with the golden ratio.

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00:00 - Intro
01:31 - Discussion
02:03 - Golden Ratio?
03:42 - Amber Heard vs Plastic Surgeon
07:26 - Conclusion