Personality or Appearance: What Really Matters? (Page 2)

[Bandit74]

"said they preferred Girl B as a short-term fling, and wanted Girl A as a potential mate."

That doesn't surprise me. Guys are more likely to lower their standards on sexual attraction when it comes to hookups. They raise their standards on sexual attraction when it comes to relationships. Thats the opposite of girls who tend to have higher standards on sexual attraction for hookups and more lenient standards on sexual attraction for relationships.

[inverted]

I value personality over appearance. I don't care about weight, and in fact, I'm sort of a chubby chaser.

I don't care if she has some acne, pointy ears, slightly crooked teeth, stretch marks or stuff like that. As long as she smells good, has nice hair, pretty eyes and a great smile, she's golden.

[RandomBritishGuy94]

Unfortunately both matter. Sexual attraction is important and I probably won't "chat up" someone I don't find attractive.

I value both and wouldn't care if I knew someone well enough but it's all important in the relationship.

[lonelyoldboy]

Honestly I just wasn't physically attracted to girl B. Even though self esteem is very important, it's not as essential as physical attractiveness. If I don't have any physical feelings toward her, there's no point in having a relationship.
I'd rather have an insecure girl with curves and a beautiful face than a confident girl who's chunky and homely. And most men are like that. We're shallow. It's just a fact that we all gotta accept.

[SilenRose]

Both are equally important. I have to find the person attractive in order to date them and I have to be able to mix with their personality to consider continue on being with them. As always the looks grab your attention and the personality keeps you.

[joeb73]

As someone who took the poll , I have to say nice my take you did a really nice job on it. To answer your question on the reason for the result , I wonder if the age of the people might have a factor in it.

[SirenDep]

Scientifically speaking, the sample of the survey is too small to be representing men as a whole and the percentages are almost equal, so the results might be by chance.

[JudgmentDay]

A balance of both? But many are unaware that appearances and physical beauty will not last forever, since everyone ages and become old and wrinkled eventually.

[MikeGaultier]

I've never fallen for an incredibly attractive girl with a terrible personality. Every single girl that I have ever dated was decent looking, but they all had great personalities.

[nileve]

in my opinion personality is more importnant.. once you like the personality you start to find the oustide attractive but then again is the outside that gets your attention on the person

[SillyMilly]

Personally i'd like a guy to at least be average because I've noticed when i start to like a guy for his personality his looks seem to appear greater than they were in the beginning.

[Grungenoreos]

Same!

[findingdreamland-1]

For me personality. Â beautiful personality makes Everything beautiful.
Appearance just is valid for me at first five minutes. Then i need more to continue.

[RemonsterMan]

The problem with your little project is that the sample size is tiny and that you forget to factor in that this website is basically engineered to attract insecure people.

[RemonsterMan]

You're also assuming that people are telling you the absolute truth. People have a tendency to say one thing while in practice actually doing the complete opposite. Cognitive-dissonance and the simple act of telling white lies to protect your social reputation all play a part here. Even on the Internet.

[LittleFinch]

Oh yeah, believe me I know. The more I looked at the results the more comical they became, as I know firsthand you can never trust what people say online. Still, I thought the idea itself would be interesting for a project, so I'm testing it here. While I can't rely on people in real life to be anymore honest, I can hopefully attract a better democraphic of people than here. Like I said, though, it was just a test run here. Most of the people I've attracted seem to be liars or really shallow, then there are those who claim to love personality who may be full of it. You're right, though I did know what I was getting into.

[zero444440000]

easy answer. if your dating appearance is the thing that matters most. if for you personality matters more/only thing that matters to you... then you don't date them. you become there friend.

[00Lelouchxx]

Girl b just wasn't my type..

Girl a is cuter. But her body is ok

In. noy looking for a long term
So she won by default

What ever Kate Upton body type I'd that's my fab

[Xwtxx]

Appearances is to grab the attention of the person , but the personality seals the deal.

[dreamingincake]

This makes so much sense!

[OpenWine]

well that was all needed info in 1 sentence. I really can't read stuff bigger than few phrases

[Kylesar]

Give me a 7 with a personality 10 any day over a 10 personality 7

[Scrambledagain]

I didn't read this. Just posting for later to read:) but I know this: personality for a guy, appearance for a girl. That's it, non-debatable.

[Nothanks700]

I disagree completely. Maybe in the initial approach, but outside of that, no way.

[oneone11]

I would say its always 50/50, for me personally I'll be physically attracted to a girl first, from there on I get to know her personality before I do anything else because I know pretty girls use people while others can be genuine

[sparkly-crystal]

I think most guys want a girl who is attractive and confident.