Forum: Author Hangout

SW, is this based on anything other than blind guess work?

LOL Blind guess work.

I would think guys would typically agree on what's beauty (more than girls) so that led to the difference of 5 and 10. The same sort of applies to the 70 and 100.

I was looking for a trick. Not finding one, I blindly guessed.

But I did specify a public high school, so I think that would leave out your academy

Actually, being an Aussie and not from the US I don't know how your school naming system goes, I simply used the word academy because you see it in the name of so many schools in the US films. However, the point I was trying to make was the differences in the perspective and decision making factors between a sighted school body and a blind school body "looking" for different things in the people they select. You can see the same sort of different selection factors in different types of beauty contests; for example, the values of items in the Miss Florida contest are different to those in the Florida Nudist Association Miss Nude Florida - different criteria means different answers, even if the group being viewed is the same.

Back to the original question: some people will go solely on the physical appearance of the whole body while some will focus on the face and some will focus on a particular part of the body, and others will include the person's personality and behaviours while some won't. Thus the question, as stated, is way too subjective to get an objective answer and thus not suitable to be solved in a normal mathematic process that looks for objective answers.

Having said that, mob psychology works when the crowd is big enough but fails on small groups and individuals.

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Ernest (or anyone/everyone), What do you think the difference between Des Moines and Santa Monica or other settings would would be?

For example, I would think that if the racial mix was more heterogeneous, the number of people named (for both boys and girls) would be larger and the most frequently named person's total number would be less.

Ernest, being from Australia, would be unlikely to know the differences between the two locales. I'd think Santa Monica would have more 'beautiful people', but I wouldn't know how much of a percent of the total they'd make.

Figure 20% would get the majority of the votes, likely evenly spread. Each school as a 'most attractive girl' (usually the one with the biggest boobs and an attractive face), but in a decent sized school, there'd be bound to be a decent amount of competition for the honor.

A large number would get at least a couple of votes (girlfriends, GF's friends, etc.), but few would break out.

For guys, figure the 'stars' (footballs and basketball players) would score near the top. Anyone in the film industry would rank high (both because they're naturally attractive and they'd be more easily recognizable). Large guys (and girls) would score higher than short folk, and those stats are more easily identified.

You might also have specific favorites (most popular white girl, Hispanic girl, black girl, etc.).

Sterling, I think you'd find a large amount of people (say 20%) would receive ZERO votes. HS can be a horrible place for fragile egos.

Not sure why he thinks the most popular boy would get more than the most popular girl.

I typed those numbers backwards.

lots of LGBTQs? lots of not-hotties?

Original post had a student body of 400 evenly split between the genders. I wonder how someone would feel if they got a vote of 287 people listing them as the person they'd most like to have sex with?

Original post had a student body of 400 evenly split between the genders. I wonder how someone would feel if they got a vote of 287 people listing them as the person they'd most like to have sex with?

Popular?

Popular?

or worried if they're strictly single current.

Popular?

Especially if they learned they were more popular with the opposite sex to which they're naturally attracted.

The meaning of this sentence is unclear.

Do you mean girl who is attracted to boys finds out that she is more popular with:
1 boys
2 girls.

2 would certainly be funnier.

That's what I was intending, but I was trying (too hard) to be inclusive (i.e. including gays being chased by straights too).

At first glance it looked to me like it only applied to straights being chased by the opposite sex.

This can be parsed several ways:

Especially if they learned they were more popular with the opposite sex, to which they're naturally attracted.

is a very different sentence from :

Especially if they learned they were more popular with, the opposite sex to which they're naturally attracted.

or:

Especially if they learned they were more popular with the opposite sex from that which they're naturally attracted to.

At first glance it looked to me like it only applied to straights being chased by the opposite sex.

This can be parsed several ways:

I've learned that, if a joke dies a painful death, it's best not trying to resurrect it! Timing is everything in humor. 'D

A bit awkward but gets the meaning comes across better than the original.

Speaking of which, is it too late to delete the original? 'D