I don’t, because I think attractiveness is very subjective and I don’t understand how “everyone” can agree on one rating for any given person. There are people who I know others would find hot who I’m not into. But I hear these numbers thrown around a lot, especially by men, so I’m curious what you think.
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Yes but the ranges are vague and will vary in preference.
The range 4-6 is basically the same category, as well as 7-8/9-10/1-3
All human thought is subjective. When you rate someone’s looks on a scale, you’re providing your opinion—there’s no implication of objective truth, which no subjective mind can validly identify in any context.
Don’t know, don’t care.
Yes, as long as you understand that i’s just “first impression” attractiveness. It changes significantly once you get to know someone.
It’s not universal, obviously. It’s just my personal rating.
Well you can certainly rate someone on your own personal scale of how attractive you feel they are at a particular time. Yes, obviously different people may rate people differently, or what we find attractive might change over time.
No. Different people have different things that attract me. It’s all subjective.
Hellz what I’m attracted to fluctuates.
Yeah but it will vary in preferences, each person has their own list of preferences.
Attraction is somewhat subjective but most people are in that 4-6 range. The lucky blessed ones are in the 8-10 range and the very unlucky ones are in that 1-3 range.
Yes, if you turn people into products.
Rating attractiveness 1-10 on a scale is the wrong answer to the wrong question.
Yes. But not everyone is gonna agree.
Don’t get me wrong, most people are going to agree within 1.5 to 2.0 points. There is always to be someone who thinks Salma Hayek is a 3, but that’s an outlier or a troll. But your 8 might be my 6.5. And my 7 might be your 5.5. Generally it will be close.
Of course. Like you said it’s subjective and so obviously everyone won’t agree.
Yes.
I know because I’m a 2 _maybe_ a 3.
Somewhat, if someone is very attractive almost everyone will agree they are attractive to some capacity.
It’s all the 5-7 range where personal preference comes into play. What might be a 6 to someone might be a 9 to another.
Symmetry is a very clear and common indicator of attraction, our eyes like symmetry and we all like a face with good symmetry, that is a universal thing.
No. Because I don’t get the point. Okay, a woman’s a ten… And?? Now what??
I think it can but only on an individual level. As you say, it’s entirely subjective. Someone I thinking is a smoking 10 might be a “wouldn’t say no if they hit on you” 5 to someone else.
And it being that subjective means it’s definitely not very relevant for discussions or comparisons.
Two different things, and you already answered your own question.
I can rate attractiveness on a 1-10 scale. But that scale is unique to me and completely subjective.
There are some general characteristics that a given society will tend to agree on (everyone agrees that Halle Berry is attractive), but the variation will be very large – one person’s 5 is another person’s 9 (we all agree that Berry is attractive, but she will be a 7 to some, a 10 to others).
It’s inconsistent and juvenile and objectifying. But we’re open to ideas on a better system, lol.
> I don’t, because I think attractiveness is very subjective and I don’t understand how “everyone” can agree on one rating for any given person.
Something can be both subjective and gradable.
One of my “10’s” would be a chubby, awkwardly nerdy, tall, bearded lad. Or, a tattooed musician twunk with a belly and great smile. Though no one is a ten unless they are also wildly attracted to me and have a bit of erudition about them.
So yeah, taste is highly subjective and full of arbitrary expectations.
This is nothing more than simple group-think and immaturity.
Yes there is such a thing as attractiveness, and we (scientifically, that is) can measure and predict with reasonably good precision how attractive a person will be judged, relative to others by the general public.
Because there are some elements of attraction that are shared widely, albeit of course not strictly “universal.”
Things like:
– apparent symmetry
– apparent vitality / health / virility
– apparent compatibility (cultural, genetic, etc.)
– apparent status / power
– apparent confidence / self-assuredness
Not everyone agrees on strict definitions of these things, and not everyone would measure a given person at the same point on a 1-10 scale, but there are trends. Commonalities.
You could argue there are many more dimensions of attraction, and you’d be right. There are. And some are more important than others, for different people. And some are defined a little bit differently, by different people.
A work on a canvas hanging on a gallery wall can be beautiful to one person, and hideous to the next.
But that doesn’t mean there is no such thing as *good art* and *bad art*. It just means people are bound to disagree on the specifics!
There was a study done several years ago where contestants of 10 women and 10 men had an anonymously assigned “attractive rating” on a scale of 1-10. They were assigned that number by a panel of people who determined which one was least attractive and which one was most attractive. No contestant knew their attractive rating.
When the ten men and women met each other in a room, they had to pair off with their ideal partner based on looks alone. Coincidentally, almost all of them chose someone with the same attractive rating. Only one or two pairs, if I recall correctly, were off, but by one digit.
In any case, the study pointed out that like-attractive people will often choose each other. One person’s concept of a 10 is not the same as another person’s 10. My wife thinks I’m a 10, but remember hotornot? I was like a 6.
No
Of course. A fat toothless hobo won’t be equal with a supermodel no matter how you slice it.