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January 26, 2004
Meme (More Involved): Physical Attraction
Taking the usual memes and quizzes out there and kicking it up a notch, check out Match.com's "Physical Attraction Test.
Based on academic studies, rather than the usual mojo slinging, it studies your choices in a series of tests and evaluates the data to determine what it believes is your Type. Much of this is based on facial features (body features, too, if you elect to do that part of the test).
It came out with interesting results. Having never quantified what I like or don' t like, I can't vouch for the accuracy of the numbers, but in general it seemed to have my preferences identified. Apparently, I'm pretty unique. Sharing my tastes with only 10% of men, I'm usually attracted to non-mainstream appearances. I'm also very selective, with only 1% in my age group being this picky.
At some point, I might post up a few of the "top hits", but since there is a side contest going on, it'll have to wait. I'm not entirely convinced that the result is accurate, but at the same time, I think it might be. For the large part, I think it's because it may be a realistic view on what's attainable. One of the questions, after all, was an assessment of which of the people that appealed to you were ones that you thought would be appealed to you. Of course, my self-esteem being what it is, that knocked out a lot of the "more attractive" women that I had picked.
Not sure what that says about me, but I'm sure my stock just lost a few points somewhere.
Posted by KinCross at January 26, 2004 11:36 PM