Thursday, February 5, 2009

The sorority secret: power in numbers



At first glance this seems like an attractive group of young female humans.  On a scale of 1 to 10, a male admirer might assign this group an overall average of 7 or 8.  However, upon closer inspection, it's fairly easy to detect several fatties, a large number of uggos, and even a few fuggos.  If I were to rate each girl on the 1-10 scale and take the average rating, I would probably end up with something like 4 or 5.  

This is called the group attractiveness phenomenon.  See figure one below, where the x axis represents "individual attractiveness" and the y axis represents "need to be in a group."  
As you can see, ugly girls feel more of a need to be part of a group.  Large numbers confuse the eye so that the casual observer sees a more attractive whole than the sum of its parts.  

I'm not saying that all large groups of women are ugly, just be careful next time you're checking one out. 

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

i have noticed this phenomenon as well. and it never ceases to annoy the hell out of me once i realize im being fooled

Brian said...

the graph got me

Anonymous said...

genius

Anonymous said...

I really like the girls in Tri-Delt. They don't deserve to be your "example". Fuck You!

Anonymous said...

stealing material from how i met your mother? creative.

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

Fuck you. Let's see a good photo of you alone bitch.

Anonymous said...

what an asshole.

Anonymous said...

Tri-Delt girls are all pretty hideous if you ask me. The only hot girl was an Indian named H*#*%i. Then again, about 6 guys from DTD rammed her. Maybe not so hot as I thought.