And not to be too hand-wavey, but what if (I know this sounds crazy) there's actually a reciprocal effect here? What if there's a natural conceptual affinity between people who are attractive to each other? What if I only like the topics I like, because those are the ones the people I find attractive like? Or they like them because I do?
That's an interesting idea. You'd need to do a similar experiment, swapping the topics for faces, and do a scatter plot to see if there's any covariance between topic-interest and attractiveness. I'm inclined to think that there isn't, but it'd be interesting to see the data.
That's an interesting idea. You'd need to do a similar experiment, swapping the topics for faces, and do a scatter plot to see if there's any covariance between topic-interest and attractiveness. I'm inclined to think that there isn't, but it'd be interesting to see the data.