- Reaction score
- 6,504
An absolute rating makes sense because beauty is distributed like a bell curve. A lot of people at the middle, fewer really pretty women and really ugly women. A percentile rating cannot distinguish between ultra pretty and very pretty.
Who says beauty is distributed like a bell curve? I go with the percentile because it's accurate to reality, with that method there's in theory just as many 8/10's as there are 5/10's, which is actually fair. A girl who is fairly attractive shouldn't be dragged down to 5/10 because there's a rare few girls out there who are soooo attractive.
I don't see how the percentile rating fails to do that very thing at all, very pretty 8/10, out of 5 women would be the most attractive, ultra pretty is 9/10, we don't even need decimals here.
With the "absolute" rating then the vast majority of women won't go over 6/10, and that's ridiculous.