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By Zawadi Birya

In a test commissioned by ABC News in America, a group of people were asked to rate 60 photos on how beautiful the people pictured were. Although the face in the picture was of the same person, it had been altered in each case so that it portrayed a different image. Some of the effects made the person appear dark skinned while in other cases she appeared light skinned.

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