Tuesday, January 24, 2006
The Scale
In a previous post I described a girl as a 4.5-5.0 on a 1-10 rating scale. [Note: not actually showing yet, still in editing mode] Now the scale is needed just for general conversational purposes. For instance, when I’m talking to my best friend, Anh, and he tells me he hooked up with a hot chick the other night, I want to make sure that we’re on the same page here, so I know exactly how excited to be for him. And nothing’s worse than someone saying that they’re going to introduce you to their “cute” friend, who just ends up being below average. For whatever reason, it seems that people (girls more so) have a hard time just saying their female friends are just average or below-average looking.
Now many approaches to scales exist. For instance, if you go to www.hotornot.com, it seems that they use some type of linear scale. Anh and I didn’t like that, because we felt that in no way there are as many 10s as 5s. So we applied the standard normal distribution curve – or bell curve.
This made lots of sense, as we felt the average person should be given the middle number of 5. The next step up, 6, should then represent attractive, and double-checking, yes, there are substantially less attractive people than average looking people. The next step, 7, would be pretty hot / hot – again, substantially fewer in number than 6s. 8 would be hot / smoking hot and 9 would be smoking hot. The last subject of debate was 10. After some discussion we agreed that 10 would just be a theoretical level. As in whatever the perfect girl would look like, that’s a 10. Someone like a Helen of Troy – men would fight wars over her. [Note: we feel that the actress who played Helen in the most recent Troy movie, although hot (an 8) was not a good enough representative of Helen – quite disappointing].
Here are some real life examples, using celebrities:
5 – Kersten Dunst
6 – Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore,
7 – Elisha Cuthbert, Jennifer Love Hewitt
8 – Angelina Jolie, Uma Thurman, Heather Graham, Shannon Elizabeth
9 – Jessica Alba, Anna Kournikova, Elizabeth Hurley
10 – Charlize Theron
Now before anyone starts disagreeing with the scoring of the above celebreties, keep in mind that you must try to score closer to what the general consensus of guys (with good taste) would be rather than your own opinion. For instance, I know that you think Rosie O’Donnel belongs among the 8s, but since no one else does, just remain silent and keep your big chick fantasy to yourself.
As mentioned above, the scale rests on the principal of the bell curve. Hence there is a huge difference between a 5 or 6, but the difference between an 8 or 9 is very small. So small such that you can’t really see whether Angelina Jolie is an 8 or a 9. And in terms of applicability to everyday life, anytime you get a 7 or above, you’re happy. As Anh says, you bed a 7 no matter what (you can disregard personality and even previous criminal record).
That’s it for now - for the sake of keeping this blog to reasonable level, it will be continued with part II, in which the validity of the scale was challenged by Craig, and other caveats were thrown in.
Now many approaches to scales exist. For instance, if you go to www.hotornot.com, it seems that they use some type of linear scale. Anh and I didn’t like that, because we felt that in no way there are as many 10s as 5s. So we applied the standard normal distribution curve – or bell curve.
This made lots of sense, as we felt the average person should be given the middle number of 5. The next step up, 6, should then represent attractive, and double-checking, yes, there are substantially less attractive people than average looking people. The next step, 7, would be pretty hot / hot – again, substantially fewer in number than 6s. 8 would be hot / smoking hot and 9 would be smoking hot. The last subject of debate was 10. After some discussion we agreed that 10 would just be a theoretical level. As in whatever the perfect girl would look like, that’s a 10. Someone like a Helen of Troy – men would fight wars over her. [Note: we feel that the actress who played Helen in the most recent Troy movie, although hot (an 8) was not a good enough representative of Helen – quite disappointing].
Here are some real life examples, using celebrities:
5 – Kersten Dunst
6 – Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore,
7 – Elisha Cuthbert, Jennifer Love Hewitt
8 – Angelina Jolie, Uma Thurman, Heather Graham, Shannon Elizabeth
9 – Jessica Alba, Anna Kournikova, Elizabeth Hurley
10 – Charlize Theron
Now before anyone starts disagreeing with the scoring of the above celebreties, keep in mind that you must try to score closer to what the general consensus of guys (with good taste) would be rather than your own opinion. For instance, I know that you think Rosie O’Donnel belongs among the 8s, but since no one else does, just remain silent and keep your big chick fantasy to yourself.
As mentioned above, the scale rests on the principal of the bell curve. Hence there is a huge difference between a 5 or 6, but the difference between an 8 or 9 is very small. So small such that you can’t really see whether Angelina Jolie is an 8 or a 9. And in terms of applicability to everyday life, anytime you get a 7 or above, you’re happy. As Anh says, you bed a 7 no matter what (you can disregard personality and even previous criminal record).
That’s it for now - for the sake of keeping this blog to reasonable level, it will be continued with part II, in which the validity of the scale was challenged by Craig, and other caveats were thrown in.
