Wednesday, January 25, 2006
The Scale - Part 2
As previous posted, I talked about The Scale. Now one day, I was describing some chick as pretty hot, to Craig. At which point he strongly disagreed. To be more specific, I then labeled her as a 6-7. He responded to that by labeling her a 4. At that point, I then had to interject and say that his rating was just ridiculous. This chick definitely above average, and there was no way she could be labeled below average.
He agreed that she was probably above average, but then claimed that the average person was a 2! (Still using a 1-10 scale) An incredible assertation! That seemed to defy the laws of mathematics and science behind the concept of average. Besides not making mathematical sense, other problems are if average was a 2, then below average would have to be 1, and now you've run out of space for ugly. As in, where do we place yo mama?
Despite this seemingly useless assingment of 2 as average...it was right! For instance, I take the 38 bus (Geary) line home everyday. And I have to say - I never see any hot chicks, and hardly ever see any attractive chicks. For the most part, the bus is always filled just with hurtin' people. I took BART to a Warriors game once - I looked around - everyone was hurtin'.
It looked like the scale was going to have to be modified in a big way. But luckily, Craig was able to reconcile my scale against his. Basically, a caveat had to be added stating that the universe of people was being restricted to the population of 18-35 year olds you go to bars or clubs at least once a month. Of course! This entire time, Anh and I had automatically been filtering out the majority of the population. After all, there is no need to compare the cute chick standing in line at Dulce to 2.5.
So with that the scale lives on. To recap:
- Scale is 1-10, with 5 being average, and 10 being theoretical.
- It is a normal distribution curve, with the most people being a 5.
- The universe is limited to people who go out to bars and clubs at least once a month. And that excludes biker bars, and bars frequented by legitimate alchoholics.
- The previous claus the makes a 1 a theoretical level as well. As in, if you saw someone that you were labeling a 1, that person probably does not fit the universe limitations / restrictions of the scale.
- You must adjust your scale when overruled by a majority of guys with good taste. For instance, if I had Jennifer Anniston as a 6, but every guy I talked to had her at a 7 or 8, I would have to then bump her up.
Part 3 (yes, this is quite an extensive subject), will talk about how to factor in personality.
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He agreed that she was probably above average, but then claimed that the average person was a 2! (Still using a 1-10 scale) An incredible assertation! That seemed to defy the laws of mathematics and science behind the concept of average. Besides not making mathematical sense, other problems are if average was a 2, then below average would have to be 1, and now you've run out of space for ugly. As in, where do we place yo mama?
Despite this seemingly useless assingment of 2 as average...it was right! For instance, I take the 38 bus (Geary) line home everyday. And I have to say - I never see any hot chicks, and hardly ever see any attractive chicks. For the most part, the bus is always filled just with hurtin' people. I took BART to a Warriors game once - I looked around - everyone was hurtin'.
It looked like the scale was going to have to be modified in a big way. But luckily, Craig was able to reconcile my scale against his. Basically, a caveat had to be added stating that the universe of people was being restricted to the population of 18-35 year olds you go to bars or clubs at least once a month. Of course! This entire time, Anh and I had automatically been filtering out the majority of the population. After all, there is no need to compare the cute chick standing in line at Dulce to 2.5.
So with that the scale lives on. To recap:
- Scale is 1-10, with 5 being average, and 10 being theoretical.
- It is a normal distribution curve, with the most people being a 5.
- The universe is limited to people who go out to bars and clubs at least once a month. And that excludes biker bars, and bars frequented by legitimate alchoholics.
- The previous claus the makes a 1 a theoretical level as well. As in, if you saw someone that you were labeling a 1, that person probably does not fit the universe limitations / restrictions of the scale.
- You must adjust your scale when overruled by a majority of guys with good taste. For instance, if I had Jennifer Anniston as a 6, but every guy I talked to had her at a 7 or 8, I would have to then bump her up.
Part 3 (yes, this is quite an extensive subject), will talk about how to factor in personality.
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