-100 to 100

I propose a new way to check someones overall attractiveness. It's simple yet deep, intuitive yet intricate, and subtle but obvious all at once. No more shall we rate people from 1 to 10 for their looks, call them funny or interesting for their personality, or refer to them as rugged or sexy for their primal appeal to us. What makes a person attractive comes down to four simple traits that I will be elaborating on in future posts, but they basically boil down to:

Looks
Status
Money
Personality

This all boils down to a simple question: How attractive, with the sum of all of your traits, are you? How men and women weigh each in their overall decision is, yet again, a matter for another post, but now we're laying the groundwork for something greater. It's like a Lego set out this bitch, and we're about to build the Death Star and Market Street all at once, but first we need to get the basic pieces in place.

When you factor all these things together, sprinkled with a dusting (or heavy helping depending on your own personal style) of game, you get a persons rating on the new and improved empirical Rule style of measuring a persons attractiveness. There will be many fun layers that we shall manipulate later, but these are the basic ideas that need to be grasped for now:

1) If you end up negative, you are repelling people you'd like to be with. Up to a point you will be repelling everyone you want and attracting those you don't. If you're not too far down, you may attract someone who does not know they're true value for some reason, but just like in economics, the invisible hand corrects things (though the hand is often not invisible, but some asshole at a party that has had way too many drinks) After a certain point, you will be repelling everyone.

2) If you are very close to zero, then you are neutral. You probably have a lot of friends and are generally liked (and if too far from zero in the other direction, tolerated), but you are extremely dissatisfied with your interactions with people you'd like to get to know more than platonicaly.

3) If you are heavily positive then you are attracting people you want. Up to a certain point, you are attracting more than most people. Past a certain point, up to 100, you are attracting almost everyone you meet.

If you set this up like a bell curve with zero being top of the bell curve you get a picture like this.



Using the Empirical Rule from statistics, the following is revealed

1) 1 percent of us will be so horrible that no one will want us to even be mentioned in their presence, or so damn attractive that you're a famous celebrity. You are the people who are past +/- 3. You either love life so much that you never sleep, or you hate life so much that you probably are reading this from the afterlife because you've already committed 1000 suicides.

2) 4 percent of us will have pretty damn awesome lives or pretty shitty lives. These are the people that fall between -2 and -3 and +2 and +3. On the top end, you're rich fun and well liked (though not necessarily famous, but possibly) and on the bottom end, you're probably switching between this and playing World of Warcraft and haven't seen the sun in weeks. If you're in high school, I hope you don't decide to go all Columbine because you haven't socially adjusted. Help is on the way.

3. 27 percent of us fall in between -1 and -2 and +1 and +2. This is not a bad place to be on the plus side. On the negative side, you might be extremely social and attractive, but you probably are surrounded by others like you. Misery loves company, and people are less likely to open up a can of Virginia Tech if they have friends.

4. Lastly, 68 percent of us will fall between -1 and +1 when it's all said and done. This is the place you know there's much better out there for you, but you're also aware there's much worse regardless of which side you of zero you sit on. I believe that most of the hard-core self-improvement people (myself included) spent a significant time floating around zero because any lower than -1.5, and you start to give up hope of ever doing better in anything, let alone your dating life.

This is the groundwork for future series on improving your overall attractiveness for men and women.