Somehow I’m both too good and not good enough to meet the criteria to join.
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Yeah, like I’m maybe a 5, but my car works fine, so…hmmm
I call those moments, "what do women see in me?"
“Older, can afford to see why the check engine light is on”
It's^free^at^autozooooone
Shit I already convinced some poor girl to marry before smart phones but I'll keep it in mind
Damn sign me up.
Does it count if my truck's check engine light came on but it got fixed because I figured out the gas cap wasn't screwed on tight enough?
Hi
Edit: nvm
"Like a strong 7" is about as reliable as "6' 0" tall" as self-evaluation in the context of dating.
If 5 is average and 10 is "celebrity known for being beautiful, dressed up and wearing full makeup" then probably one in ten people is a 7 or higher. For the record, I'm 5' 11.5" and a 4 on a good day. My marketing pitch is "Below average but not so much so that people stare."
I propose a new dating website:
"5 and below"
Everyone caps at 5, and if you're over, you get banned :}
Just make the scale logarithmic, but it starts at 7 in the middle, like the PH scale.
This is going way, waaay back... but basically...
For cishets at least:
Men tend to actually use pretty close to a standard normal distribution based around the actual midpoint, and actually use the entire scoring range.
Women tend to not do this, at all, and instead have a heavily biased or skewed way of using the scoring range.
(Where I mean bias and skew in their statistical definitions, primarily.)
Women only rate 19% of men as being average or better. Women also very often say they consider and talk to and date men who they view as not in their league.
And thats not like, a spurrious result from only one early dating app. There are many studies and published analyses that consistently show that women tend to be very picky or choosy or harsh or however you want to say it, tend to rate very few men as very attractive, compared to how men rate women as very attractive.
So, to apply this kind of data to your hypothetical on the 1-10 scale, doing a rough conversion for the 1-7 scale here:
Basically, if you are a man rating women, well you can see that 21% of women are rated 6/7 or 7/7...
... but if you are a woman rating men, the amount of men rated 6/7 or 7/7 is 2%.
That is to say, men find roughly 2 out of 10 women to score 7 or higher, whereas women find roughly 0 out of 10 men to score a 7 or higher, on a 1-10 scale.
This kind of data is also a literal foundational reason why all modern dating apps work the way they do.
I was 5'11.5" but after a motorcycle accident and leg surgery, I'm 6' on my right leg.
That was pretty much my thoughts on reading it. Then I realized, that sort of described the plenty of fish site, unsure if still around, went on a few dates from that (guess that shows my range and age) and had fun. Well more fun than not.
Look take that 6'0" comment back. I am 6'
In shoes
I would assume that this is an IGN-style scale where it's functionally 5-10, not 1-10. 7 is average, 5 is terrible
It's not.
Source: am a 2
anything below 5 is cringe but 3 or below and its abject horror
Do you like kids?
Depends how hungry I am.
... please score 'Hungry Hungry Hippo' hungry on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being absolutely famished and actively starving to death, 1 being so full that you already fell asleep from a food coma.
There's one already called Tinder. It's exactly what you said.
categorizing everyone into a pseudo-objective 1-10 attractiveness scale and saying "depressed is good!....but only fun depressed [whatever tf that means]" ... is a red fucking flag
yea i know it's a joke.
but is it really?
saying “depressed is good!..but only fun depressed [whatever tf that means]”
I think it has something to do with the saying "the clown is often the saddest person in the room." So they want someone who is just sad enough to always be making jokes or trying to be funny. I recognize myself in that at least. I tend to always be looking to make people laugh even if I'm kinda miserable inside every day.
Everyone knows the correct scale is 0-1.
You're either interested or not.
We talking integers or real numbers?
Integers are real numbers.
Look at this guy full of wisdom. Get out of here
Well we know which kind you have. /s
It wouldnt fly because all those people want to date a 10.
It's not my fault that all women are 10s.
Or that's my definition of a 10?
My check engine light came on two days ago. I feel called out😋
On the bright side, you seem more attractive now
Out of a hundred?
/J
Damn I meet the rest of the criteria except I'm probably a 3 on a good day lol
This is a goddamn lie and you know it.
Try again.
True, I'd probably fix the check engine light.
Who dates a person that has the CEL on in their car
I have a rat car and even that car's cel isn't on anymore because the bulb burned out in the dash. Good ole Toyotas.
idk cuz I have multiple warning lights on in my car. I know exactly what they mean but... depression keeps me from getting them fixed .
Who decides who's a 7 though? Maybe others think I'm a 10 on a good day, and a 1 on a depressed day. Maybe I'll just want to lay in bed and cry and eat fried chicken. Maybe the next day I'll want to fuck Halle Berry and Angelina Jolee. You know Angelina would SO be down for face-sitting, and I bet Halle gives one nervous mediocre blowjob, where she's not quite sure what she's doing, but she's hot so nobody is complaining.
And maybe by Friday I'll want to walk down the streets naked eating nachos. But fuck it's too cold out there! Mr Winky would shrink! I wouldn't even NEED to be in the pool!
What were we talking about?
ADHD was not on the ok list!
FUCK
I can assign how I'm doing on a numerical scale and looking at the percentage of the people I'm trying to look good for respond positively.
If it's about 50%, I'm at a 5.
I've been told this is very regressive and patriarchal, oh well.