当你浏览最新的约会APP时 你有没有停下来想过 While browsing the latest dating app, have you ever stopped and wondered:
为什么这么多长得好看的人居然是混蛋 why are so many of the good-looking people jerks?
事实上 这一现象的解释很简单 Well, it turns out there's a simple explanation for this phenomenon.
如果我们画个小图 将友好度和好看度做个对比 If we make a little graph of niceness vs good looks
我们就能有答案了 we can start to get an answer.
首先 我们要假设人们在这张表上是均匀分布的 First we have to assume that people are equally spread across this chart
意思就是 有些人歹毒又丑陋 有些人丑陋但友好 meaning some people are mean and ugly, some people are ugly and nice,
有些好看但刻薄 有些人好看又友好 some are good-looking and mean and some are good looking and nice.
当然这些都是建立在你的主观印象和品位上 是你感觉好看和友好的 Of course this is based on your subjective taste and what you find beautiful and nice.
现在如果你仔细想想的话 你可能对歹毒又丑陋的人毫无兴趣 Now if you think about it, you probably have zero interest in people who you find mean and ugly
这就意味着你可能在一起的伴侣变少了 meaning your pool of potential mates gets a bit smaller
事实上 你可能更喜欢既带一点友好又长得还不错的人 and truthfully you probably prefer a certain combination of niceness and good looks.
最终 就剩下了这个三角区域中的人是你觉得可以接受且一开始会注意的 Ultimately were left with a triangle of people you find acceptable and give attention to in the first place.
但现在剩下可供挑选的人中 百分之百都是没有足够吸引力却很友好的人 But now one hundred percent of the people left in your pool who aren't that attractive to you are nice.
他们必须要反过来才能吸引你的注意 They have to be otherwise or you wouldn't pay them any attention.
毕竟 就算一个人对你很好 After all, if somebody is nice
你因此降低对长相的要求的可能性也较小 you're less likely to be critical of their appearance
这就去除了好看的人长相中等的这部分人 which brings down the average of nice people's looks
同理 有一半好看的人都是刻薄的 To the same token almost half of the people that are beautiful to you are mean.
再者 如果一个人很刻薄 Again, if somebody is mean,
那他们就得长得足够好看才能吸引你的目光 you likely require that they be really attractive for you to give them any attention
这样看来 似乎长得越是好看 就越是混蛋 which makes it seem like more attractive people are jerks.
进一步来看的话 If we take this a step further,
我们能够认为 既好看又友好的人市场最好 we can assume that people who are both hot and nice are the best catches and get swept off the market more quickly
能进一步加深你们的这一印象 further increasing your perception and bias,
我们可以看到 食物也是类似的 we can see a similar thing happen with food.
你有没有疑惑过 为什么健康食品却似乎并没有那么好吃呢 Do you ever wonder why it seems that healthy foods just don't taste as good？
我们来看看美味度-健康度这张表 Well, let's use our chart yumminess vs healthiness.
当然 现实中这张表是不可能均匀分布的 Of course, in reality this chart probably isn't evenly distributed
因为食物经常会弄得很可口 because food is often created to specifically taste good
因此表中的右半部分会更密集 so the right-hand side of the graph is likely more dense.
我们可去除所有并不可口也不够健康的食物 Regardless we can take out all the foods that don't taste good and aren't even good for you
因为这样的东西干嘛还吃呢 because why would you bother eating them?
但是在那些剩下的你确实会吃的食物中 But of the foods leftover that you do eat
现在有百分之一百的食物并不美味 但却对你有益 Now one hundred percent of the foods that don't taste good are good for you,
就像约会图表中那样 由于你并不会注意到这些人或食物 just like the dating graph it's because of the people or the foods that you don't pay attention to
你的看法就发生了斜交 that your perception becomes skewed.
回到约会上 还是一样的道理 Back to dating and it's true.
在你看来 颜值高的很有可能人品就差 From your perspective good-looking people are more likely to be jerks
但是由于你一开始关注焦点就放在了长相上 but it's because of who you're paying attention to in the first place
你只是无视掉了长得不好看的那些混蛋 you simply ignore the ugly jerks.
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