Physiognomy: Would he be incel today?

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Physiognomy: Would he be incel today?

OmegaKV
Ronald Fisher is one of the most well-known statisticians. He is the namesake of Fisherian runaway selection. His name appears throughout statistics textbooks. And applications of his techniques are common in the real world (including in work I do). He is without a incredibly talented and intelligent individual.

Here is his picture as a young man:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Youngronaldfisher2.JPG

I think he is a very handsome young man. And yet something about the way he looks makes me think today's women would not be attracted to him. This is just my own personal judgement so I may be completely wrong.

Am I wrong about either of these two things?: 1) He is handsome, and 2) He would be incel today due to his looks because even though he is handsome there is something about his face that just turns women off.
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Re: Physiognomy: Would he be incel today?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Fisher#Eugenics

"In 1911 Fisher became founding Chairman of the University of Cambridge Eugenics Society, whose other founding members included John Maynard Keynes, R. C. Punnett, and Horace Darwin."

"The last third of The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection focused on eugenics, attributing the fall of civilizations to the fertility of their upper classes being diminished, and used British 1911 census data to show an inverse relationship between fertility and social class"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Fisher#Contentious_views_on_eugenics

"In June 2020, Gonville and Caius College announced that a 1989 stained-glass window commemorating Fisher's work would be removed because of his connection with eugenics. In the same month, Rothamsted Research released a statement condemning Fisher's involvement with eugenics, stating "Rothamsted Research and the Lawes Agricultural Trust reject utterly the use of pseudo-scientific arguments to support racist or discriminatory views". An accommodation building, built in 2018 and previously named after him, was subsequently renamed. University College London also decided to remove his name from its Centre for Computational Biology."

So modern scum prove Fisher right by their moronic actions.  Dysgenics prevailed.