***3:00pm edit***

the tallying is taking a bit longer than i anticipated. with this in mind, i’m going to post the results (and my thoughts about them) in tomorrow’s entry.

***end of edit***

after reading  “is she cute?”: the one topic men and women never agree on…and why–an entry that touches on the different ways men and women judge female physical attractiveness–my girlfriend came up with an interesting activity for the next game night.

***btw, game night = a rotating monthly event where 20 to 30 of our friends get together on a saturday night, drink rum, eat chicken wings, and play spades, wii, taboo, and whatever else will ensure the maximum amount of fun, drunken flirtations, and occasional hurt feelings possible***

her idea: print out 10 pictures of random women, and have both the men and the women present rank them from 1 to 10 (not rate, mind you. rank). then, tally up the rankings, and see how the cumulative male score compares to the cumulative female score.

although actually pulling this off at a game night would be a logistical nightmare (seriously, imagine trying to do this in a roomful of two dozen ridiculously educated and ego-rific muthaf*ckers, whose drunkenness and horniness has given them the collective attention span of a vick brother. actually, on second thought, this might actually be entertaining as hell), i thought her idea was a great one. for all the talk and theory that men and women have different ways of assessing attractiveness, i’ve never seen any empirical evidence that we actually do.

with this in mind, we’re going to do a little experiment today. below i’ve posted pictures of 5 attractive men and 5 attractive women, each with varying hairstyles and complexions. none of these men or women would probably be considered a perfect “10“, but each would probably rank at least in the “6” or “7” range by most. this is intentional.

each picture is also numbered.

your task:

***for the pictures of the women***

vsb’s and vss’s: leave a comment ranking the women from 1 to 5 (for instance, if you left a comment saying “42154“, this would mean that you thought “4″ was the most attractive, “2″ the second most attractive”, “1″ the third most attractive, etc).

***for the pictures of the men***

we’re going to do something a little different.

1. vss’s, rank the men from 1 to 5, same as you did the women

2. vsb’s, rank the men from 1 to 5. but instead of ranking them based on how attractive you think they are, base your ranking on who you think the women would be most attracted to (for instance, if you left a comment saying “42154″, this would mean that you thought “4″ would be first on most women’s lists, “2″ would be second on most women’s list, etc)

***also (vsb’s and vss’s), it won’t hurt to type your reasoning for your decisions if you’re able to articulate them.***

i’ll tally up the vsb’s comments and the vss’s comments at noon (the time when the comments usually reach the halfway mark) and at 5pm (when the comments usually slow down) and post them in the entry.

my predictions?

1. for the women, i’m guessing that the vss’s will go “32415″ and the vsb’s will go “43152″

2. for the men, i’m guessing that the vss’s will go “51324″ and the vsb’s will go “14253″

have fun.

—the champ

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