Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Locations of Imagined Defects

While looking on Wikipedia, I found statistics of the most common areas of patietns perceived flaws. I thought this was really interesting, however, Wikipedia got this information from the book The Broken Mirror.

skin (73%)
hair (56%)
nose (37%)
weight (22%)
stomach (22%)
breasts/chest/nipples (21%)
eyes (20%)
thighs (20%)
teeth (20%)
legs (overall) (18%)
body build / bone structure (16%)
ugly face (general) (14%)
lips (12%)
buttocks (12%)
chin (11%)
fingers (11%)
eyebrows (11%)

source: The Broken Mirror, Katharine A Philips, Oxford University Press, 2005 ed, p56

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