@roger,
I have no problem treating attractiveness as an objective property. After all, you
can objectively measure how strongly people
attract others---how frequently others approach them or adhere to them, how much interest others show in them, and so forth. I'm quite optimistic that empirical experiments can yield objective information about aesthetics in principle.
But in practice, factors other than aesthetics attract people, too. For example, ethologists have known for a long time that familiar faces attract individuals more strongly than the faces of strangers do. Therefore, I would expect a scientific study of attractiveness to control for such confounding variables. In particular, I would expect that their statistics control for the race of the people who get attracted (or not). This article, though, doesn't control for
any confounding variables. It measures
something, but it's not a scientific study of attractiveness.
When defending science against "the morality police" it's best to make sure that what one's defending is actually science. This article, though, isn't science. It's just something like a Yo-Momma joke.
Psychology Today deserved to end up with egg on their face.