New published study on attractiveness of male proportions

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It's been a long time since I last visited this forum, but I recently saw something that made me think of LL.
Check out this research: http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/5/5/171790

tl;dr - They showed figures of men with different proportions to heterosexual women and asked them to rate the figures.

• Ratio of leg length to body was strongly correlated with attractiveness. The highest ratings were at ~50% of height (half a SD longer than the average.)
• Both knee (and elbow) position were only weakly correlated with a slight preference for the average position.
• Arm to body length (aka wingspan) didn't matter at all (no change in attractiveness for +/- 3 SD.)

What do you guys think? I'm pretty amazed by the findings on wingspan, especially with no impact to attractiveness even at -3 SD in length (~12%.) This is huge as it would mean having a ~5" shorter wingspan than average as a 5'7" guy would have no impact on attractiveness. These findings seem quite pro-LL.. hopefully none of the authors are on the NuVasive payroll lol

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Quote from: myloginacc on May 30, 2018, 11:29:05 PMThat about wingspan is really surprising.

I always thought longer arms looked better. Unless they're ridiculously long, like reaching below knee level.

I think longer arms do look better. This is more saying that short arms are not necessarily detrimental, because they have to be quite short to produce a T-Rex effect

Also, arms of different lengths can vary a ton in terms of attractiveness due to muscle length, size, and insertion points as well.