Scientists reveal the common photo mistake that could make people think you’re stupid

When it comes to online dating, it can be tempting to apply a beauty filter to get a date.

But be careful, ladies, as this can make you look less intelligent, according to a study.

An online study involving more than 2,700 participants asked them to rate images of 462 people.

These images consisted of original faces and their corresponding “embellished” versions.

None of the participants were told that some images had a beauty filter applied, and none were given “before” and “after” photographs of the same individual.

In a vast majority of cases (96.1 percent) people were rated as more attractive with a beauty filter applied, as well as more trustworthy.

This was regardless of gender, age or race.

However, men perceived women as less intelligent after being “beautified,” the study showed.

Writing in the journal Royal Society Open Science, the researchers said: “Although male and female raters gave higher perceived attractiveness scores to images of women than to images of men, they received lower intelligence scores than images of men. of men, particularly after beautification.

«This finding suggests the existence of a gender bias in perceptions of intelligence.

‘Gender has also been found to play an important role in the perception of related attributes such as competence and employability.

“These findings suggest that male raters’ judgments of attractiveness, intelligence, and trustworthiness are more sensitive to filters compared to female raters’ judgments.”

The team, from the Ellis Alicante Foundation, said their results also support previously reported examples of challenges women face in various spheres of life.

“Given the prevalence of beauty filter use by young women (90 percent of women ages 18 to 30 report using beauty filters before posting selfies on social media), our findings raise additional concerns.” about the possible negative impact.

‘Frequent use of beauty filters has already been found to lead to anxiety and depression, reduced self-esteem, body dysmorphia, an increase in plastic surgery, feelings of inadequacy and increased pressure to conform to unrealistic beauty standards.

“Our research adds a new dimension to the harmful consequences of using beauty filters by empirically demonstrating that men perceive women as less intelligent after the application of the filters.”