Attraction level survey RESULTS!

Robert Dewitz, the attraction level surveyor, called me tonight to inform me of his results. He will be discussing his research at the Symposium on Thursday, 6/2 in Haag Recital Hall. They are very interesting but since I won't be able to post them on the site, I will post them on my blog.

His sample size totaled 173 participants, 88 men and 85 females. He found that men are more satisfied with their overall body satisfaction, and women are not. Women have misconceptions about what they think men want. Women think that men want them to be smaller than what men actually want, from results in this survey. Men want to be in the middle of the spectrum because they want to have the body that women find attractive, which tends to be in the middle-ish of the scale spectrum.

"I found that women are significantly more dissatisfied with their bodies. Women tend to want to be thinner because they believe that men want them to be smaller, when in actuality that is not the case. Women are more dissatisfied because they have to shift farther on the scale to meet their ideal body type whereas men are closer to their ideal body type thus equaling more satisfaction," Dewitz said.