I Like You 'Cos You're Average?

Is what you find attractive merely an average of every single face you've ever seen?

Studies show that composite images formed of the most original faces are more attractive. Which makes sense. We see a million and more faces in our lifetimes, attractive and unattractive, that, when processed in our brains, blend a crooked smile and a lazy eye and a hooked nose into a sort of symmetry.

So even if you live in a closed space where everyone is blonde and blue-eyed and you've never seen a foreigner before, your personal average may be a Persian guy who owns his own investment company.

If in my entire life I only saw one face, and that face belonged to Rose O'Dizzle, then I'm in trouble.

But is that really so?