Menu
Dimorphism pillar - Facial features
Jaw
Jaw width measured against cheekbone width, combined with chin height measured against face height. Androgen-driven growth widens the jaw at the gonial angles and lengthens the chin, which makes the jaw one of the two strongest hard-tissue sex markers in the skull-trait literature. Higher readings mean a broader jaw and a longer chin.
By RateMyFaceAI. Methodology
What the reading means
Jaw places a face on the same 0 to 10 spectrum as every other signal in this pillar: 0 is the softest, most feminine shape and 10 the strongest, most masculine shape. There is no ideal band and neither end is better than the other. The reading comes from a set of landmarks, so photo angle, expression and lighting all move it.
The pillar index combines all 10 signals, over whichever of them a face carries a reading for. A signal with no reading drops out instead of counting as a neutral 5, and the signals do not all count equally.
Component readings
- Jaw width / cheekbone width
- Vertical chin height / face height
The report shows each of these beside the signal, so you can see which part of the reading drove it.
How well it separates
Across the 240 profiles with a reading, men average 6.32 and women 4.42. That is a very large separation: 1.95 pooled standard deviations apart, a statistic called Cohen's d. The two groups overlap on every signal here, so a single reading never identifies anyone's sex.
Male mean
6.32 / 10
Female mean
4.42 / 10
Readings run from 2.24 to 8.02, with a median of 5.73.
How much this signal counts toward the index follows the published evidence behind it, not the separation measured here. A photographed celebrity library is not a population sample, so read these figures as a description of this library.
How 240 celebrities read
Every profile with a reading, measured from AI-placed, hand-verified landmarks and ordered from the most masculine reading to the most feminine.
Signature tool
See my closest celebrity match
Upload a front and side photo, place the pins, and every profile in the library is ranked by the measurements you share with it.
Related signals
Jaw is read alongside these, from the same front photograph.