Editing Hot or Not (section)

==Research==
In 2005, as an example of using [[image morphing]] methods to study the effects of [[averageness]], imaging researcher Pierre Tourigny created a composite of about 30 faces to find out the current standard of good looks on the Internet. On the Hot or Not web site, people rate others' attractiveness on a scale of 1 to 10. An average score based on hundreds or even thousands of individual ratings take only a few days to emerge. To make this hot-or-not palette of morphed images, photos from the site were sorted by rank and used SquirlzMorph to create multi-morph composites from them. Unlike projects like Face of Tomorrow,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.faceoftomorrow.com |title=faceoftomorrow.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150801070644/http://faceoftomorrow.com/ |archive-date=1 August 2015 }}</ref> where the subjects are posed for the purpose, the portraits are blurry because the source images are of low resolution with differences in variables such as posture, hair styles and glasses, so that in this instance images could use only 36 control points for the morphs.<ref>Manitou (2006). [https://www.flickr.com/photos/pierre_tourigny/146532556/in/set-72157594149681294/ Hot or Not – Attractiveness Face Scale] (composite images), Flicker, May 4.</ref>  A similar study was done with [[Miss Universe]] contestants, as shown in the [[averageness]] article, as well as one for age, as shown in [[youthfulness]] article.

A 2006 "hot or not"-style study, involving 264 women and 18 men, at the [[Washington University School of Medicine]], as published online in the journal ''Brain Research'', indicates that a person's brain determines whether an image is erotically appealing long before the viewer is even aware they are seeing the picture. Moreover, according to these researchers, one of the basic functions of the brain is to classify images into a hot-or-not type categorization. The study's researchers also discovered that sexy shots induce a uniquely powerful reaction in the brain, equal in effect for both men and women, and that erotic images produced a strong reaction in the [[hypothalamus]].<ref>Wittlin, Maggie, "[https://web.archive.org/web/20060715195645/http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2006/07/hot_or_not.php Hot or Not – Women’s brains respond to erotic images as quickly and strongly as men’s]". Seed Magazine – Brain & Behavior, July, 13.</ref><ref>{{cite journal | author=Anokhin, A.P.| title=Rapid discrimination of visual scene content in the human brain | journal=Brain Research | year=2006 | volume=1093 | issue=1 | pages=167–177 | doi=10.1016/j.brainres.2006.03.108 | pmid= 16712815 | pmc=2174912|display-authors=etal}}</ref>