There's something to this. Being able to comfortably make eye contact with other people is a sign of personal confidence, but what if no one is willing to make eye contact with you? What if you are consciously not averting your eyes in that embarrassingly immediate way that communicates your discomfort, only to find that most other people do it. They can't all be lacking in self confidence, can they? I mean, maybe the dumpy nerdy looking guy is avoiding all eye contact for reasons i understand, but what about the beautiful girls who jerk their head away like they've been caught looking at scat porn? Assuming you aren't repulsive to look at, what can you make of this? How do they ever manage to meet people doing that?