NYT: Candidate's face predicts winner 71% of time

A study described in today's NYT shows that the structure of a candidate's face alone predicts their chance of election 71% of the time:

What's in That Face? A Candidate's Future

I'm more and more convinced that we are really much closer to our friends the feces throwing monkeys than we care to admit.

Historically I am the first to marshal facts and rational thought when confronting an issue. But it is clear from our irrational war mongering ways that much of our political decision making is based on thinly veiled primitive instincts.

Instead of despairing over my loss of innocence regarding the reality basis of the world, I am hoping we can use this knowledge with our eyes wide open about the way the world actually works.