What does research suggest about the relationship between people's ratings of their own physical attractiveness compared with how their close friends rate them?

A) There is no relationship between the two.
B) They are almost identical.
C) The two have a weak correlation (around 0.25) .
D) The two have a strong correlation (around 0.75) .

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Siddesh Palaksha · Accepted Answer

Final Answer : C, Explanation :  Research suggests that there is a weak correlation (around 0.25) between people's ratings of their own physical attractiveness compared with how their close friends rate them. This means that people's self-perceptions of their physical attractiveness may not match up completely with how their friends perceive them.

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