Better care for attractive babies?

I think this is a good example of why you should consider the info given when a new study comes out. They showed men and women pictures of babies and let them push a button to change the picture and drew conclusions from how long each sex looked at attractive and facially deformed babies. This study concludes that "Our study shows how beauty can affect parental attitudes," study senior author Dr. Igor Elman says in a news release, "It shows women are more invested in raising healthy babies and that they are more prone to reject unattractive kids."
They neglect to account for parental bias towards their own children, or the fact that women are MORE sensitive towards an abnormal baby and that could explain them changing the picture quickly. (That quirky nose-well it's adorable cause it comes from the baby's father! And people are more prone to see beauty in a child that resembles them, even if objective people don't see the child as beautiful.
I agree with the commentor that says, "
CLM 6-29-2009 @ 1:39PM
Was this even peer-reviewed before being released? I hate to make sexist judgments, but I can't help but note the lead researcher is male, and frankly the conclusions of the researchers seem to reflect their own biases rather than the results of the data. It's a pretty unscientific leap on their part. As indicated by other posters here, there is clearly more than one possibility for the results. Something the researchers do not appear to have controlled for (sorry about the dangling participle)."