I was reading the blog from another free dating site and come across something very interesting. They were attempting to quantify good looks. We all know it matters, but how much does it really matter?

So, they first asked men and women to rate each other's photos. The first interesting thing to come up was that men generally rated most women higher than average. In this case average would be a rating of 3, while 5 is very attractive and 1 is ugly. Some 65% of the women were rated as above average in looks.

For all the bellyaching women do about men not finding real women attractive because of movies, models and photoshop, men are very generous in their rating of women's attractiveness.


The women were much harsher. They rated more than 80% of men as being below average in looks. In the blog they suggested perhaps many women have convinced themselves there are no men good enough for them.

Any thoughts?

Females take better pictures than guys?

I don't judge a man by his looks. It is the inner being. The looks are just the icing on the cake.

I hate all sorts of polls. I'm looking for the minority of the women who aren't shallow and materialistic and that means I'm looking for those who didn't vote like the majority.

Good for you Frank!

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It's not a cat or a dog in your profile!

I saw some of the pics these women rated as below average in looks. They were all men in their late 20s and early 30s, well groomed and fit.

TexSun, you miss the point. How much looks matter to you personally is very different than women feeling that more than 80% of men are ugly. 33% would make sense. With another 33% being below average looks ant the rest above.

Lastly, this wasn't a pole. It was a study of the importance of looks and how it effects your reply rate to emails sent.

Yes and looks change yr to yr. In 10yrs we all are going to look different.The inner heart is far more imporant.

I've seen something similar as well as women rating women far lower than men rate the same women.... Personally, I don't go by what others think.. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and what I'm attracted to may not be attractive to my friends, some may find me attractive and others may not... That's what makes us individuals and leaves us to find our partners by whatever it is that attracts us to each other...

99% of all polls are crap. Have you ever been a party to CREATING a poll? Professional level? It takes a LOT of work to make the poll valid. Exact phrasing of questions, selection of the group of people to answer the poll. 99% of the polls you hear about are done by people who just said "hey, whadaya think?" to who ever happened upon their poll.
The one you are talking about would, IF it had been properly created to begin with (unlikely), STILL only be valid for the particular time over which they asked the question, and only for the people wo happened to be online, on that site, AND up for taking a poll. Then you have to figure in how many people respond to polls as though someone is watching them (they pick "nicer" than they really would). Next, you have to figure in the people who go opposite on all polls, because hey are hostile to the poll takers, or to people in general.

Anyway, it's meaningless crap. That's my firm opinion, unless it shows I'm a great guy who all women should date, and all men should admire. Then it's okay.

If I would go by the polls and other researches, I would have already hanged myself, because the world is over, we are gonna die , everybody is ugly, women are nasty, guys are insane.

Haha..You are funny!

Truthfully I do think women tend to rate the physical aspects harsher than men do. Why I am not sure I have just seen it time and time again.

its all symmetry

the more symmetric a persons face the more they are perceived to be attractive

women like strong chins and cheekbones

men like small chins and prominent eyes

or so I've read

I would say that YOU might be reading the verdict all wrong?


I believe that ALL THE MEN who completed that inquiry,,,were your typical males,,,,,lol

I consider my self a realist, and in that I try and see and view,,in a generalized perspective..

And in that,,MOST guys GIVE-WAY, to almost ANY woman,as to her being pretty,sexy,hot,attractive,,,as,,WE DO THAT out of inner lusts, lol, and inner training as we grow to RESPECT women...

I am saying because most moms try and instill the fact that it is wrong to call a woman names,,its NOT taught to us to call guys names,,,well,,not as much,wink..
And MOST guys are hoping their answers about THAT womans looks,,,,comes back to him from her as a compliment,,so he's
kind-of hitting on her(SOME)when he gave his answer.

Where-as women in general,speak with more harsh truth as to how they really see that man.
Some women will also do the above,,as,the man would,,but most
are in speaking,not THAT caring to HOLD-BACK a comment like,

he's not attractive, he's not really a handsome man, but he's OK,,

Us guys are critical with each other in seeing a womans,,looks
If she's not a baby doll,,,shes NOT,,,,,wink,, one that we would even talk about,,,,,,

It would come-down to this,
MOST ladies have no-problem finding a man,,IF THEY JUST WANT A MAN.

MOST GUYS, know they have many problems if THEY JUST WANT A WOMAN.

So as to polls being taken,,,
Most women out of honesty, would seem MORE critical at a glance.

Where most men would seem much more Less-critical, in that same glance.

I know,,,,I have confused the shlt out of everyone???lol,lol

I wish I could post a link to the study. Only one of you seems to be getting the point.

Sorry Scoundrel,

I am not in the serious mood tonight

Ok, here is the thing...I have checked "hot or not.com"..and just went around and rated women and I was shocked that many that I found quite beautiful and attractive got lower points than I gave.

There is another one for you..alright, I admit..I tried hot or not and this was an experiment also.

I posted one image of me, which seems to be attractive because it received 9.9 score. I posted another image of me, which was made almost the same time but I look different on it from a different angle and I barely scraped 6.

So that's why please do not go what "what the majority said" ..most people - unfortunately very materialistic and tabloid magazine driven- but that doesn't mean that everybody is like that. Don't worry, karma is gonna take care of them sooner or later or they will grow up and realize that things don't work the way they believe to be.

I also think, that many of the people who votes on these are teens and people in their early 20s, who are still immature and all they can think of is physical attraction and sex...but hopefully they will grow up one day and they gonna learn it one way or another.

eh..I don't know who is taking this poll and who is evaluating the results.
Sounds silly to me, like a bunch of very young girls and more mature men were doing the voting for results like that.

Actually I have done this...same day, same outfit, different pose or angle.
One picture I was a 10 the other a 6.
There is a site I'm on and there I have been steady averaging a 7.8, which I do find flattering because I have always considered myself average, right in the middle as a 5.