What does the 1-10 scale of attractiveness mean to you?

[JudgeJulie]

I don't exactly know why people rate others on a scale to 1-10. Is it accurate and is a rating of 8 out of 10 good?

[serious]

You mean overall attractiveness, that is looks and personality combined? so this is overall rating from 1-10 you are asking right? combined rating from 1-10?

Ok, I will be detailed on this. I hope you won't mind.

Well, to me a person in the range of 1-4 means the person's physical attractiveness is not that good, they fall in the ugly range. Even their personality is also on the uglier side. There would be some major character flaws.

From 4-6, it means the person is just about average in looks, and so their personality also is about the same in relation to their looks. That is their personality is just about moderate, not very appealing but not very bad either.

From 6-7 it means the person is above average in looks and their personality, their personality will be good but it will still have some negative points and quite a few of them but they would be more manageable, not real character flaws as such.

From 7-8, that means the person is really good looking and so would be their personality. Their personality would be good and attractive as well.

From 8 onwards upto 10, means that person is really gorgeous in looks, very attractive and appealing in looks and also their personality would be equally attractive and appealing as well, there would be plenty of good qualities in them, very little flaws in them.

Yes, if a person is getting a combined, overall rating ( personality+ looks) of 8 out of 10 then that means that person is really very good in all ways. This is high rating and it will be realistic as well.

However any rating beyond 9 out of 10 indicates that the person is going more towards perfection, means the person would be near perfect and almost no flaws, they will be nearly flawless in their looks and their personality and anyone getting this rating is not very common.

However if a person indeed is 9/10 on looks and 9/10 on personality as well, then that would be a very very high rating and would be a near perfect personality.

[JudgeJulie]

Superb answer, I really enjoyed reading this in depth answer. You'd be surprised how many people are confused with the attraction scale. At the end of the day, beauty is skin deep and it's very rare to find perfection. Thank you and I hope you have a lovely weekend.

[serious]

@JudgeJulie

"Superb answer, I really enjoyed reading this in depth answer."

That's fine.

"At the end of the day, beauty is skin deep and it's very rare to find perfection."

Yes, you make a very good point. It's is very rare to find perfection and yes youthful beauty, physical attractiveness will eventually fade away with age and time but inner beauty ( personality) will always shine like " Sun".

That being said, physical looks, beauty is also important, but then how much importance a person gives to attractiveness, physical looks is totally dependent on the person. Some people give more importance to looks, attractive in comparison to personality. Some people give importance to both looks and personality equally and without compromise, which is the best thinking according to me.

[serious]

@JudgeJulie

"Thank you and I hope you have a lovely weekend."

Thank you to you as well, for posting this question. It is a really good question. I wish you also have a good weekend, young lady!.

[JudgeJulie]

I think it's tough finding an all rounder. They're either very average with a fantastic personality or extremely attractive with a horrid one lol

[serious]

@JudgeJulie

"I think it's tough finding an all rounder. They're either very average with a fantastic personality or extremely attractive with a horrid one lol"

Yes, I know. That's another good point you made.

[nstem]

That scale is pretty shallow actually, in all honesty, 7-10 is pretty above average to smoking hot. Don't pay too much attention to other's ratings; scale and see yourself how YOU want to be seen. Self confidence is sexy, but be careful, arrogance is not.

[JudgeJulie]

I think there should be the right amount of confidence based on our actions and appearance without saying anything :) I don't like the scale myself but I was curious as to why people would be narrowed down to a number.

[nstem]

People narrow others down to a number to categorize- our minds do it naturally. The problem is, 1- it's incredibly shallow and 2, pretty immature and elementary.

[Cloudy25]

I haaaaaaate the scale. I don't like to give people numbers and I hate it if people try to rate me like that. The scale is also subjective, so to you a 7 might mean slightly pretty while to someone else it might mean really attractive. Especially on GAG i see a really big diversity on the perception of the scale, but attractiveness i subjective and a scale seems universal, they dont go together in my opinion. the numbers also makes you focus on how much you lack instead of what you've got.

[JudgeJulie]

I wholeheartedly agree with you babe, beauty is skin deep. The depth of your personality is more important than looks in my opinion. You can't put a number on how good someone looks lol

[Cloudy25]

You go girl, that's so true xD

[JudgeJulie]

Thanks beautiful, I hope you have an awesome weekend ❤️

[Cloudy25]

Aww thank you❤ Same to you missy

[Pomegranate139]

8/10 is really good. The rating system shows how attractive you are physically to the opposite gender (or your own gender, but the sexes tend to rate differently). They rate so that when they explain to others about "the hot babe I saw in the park" the will describe her number so that others would understand exactly how attractive she is (from eeww, to meh to wow to *drool*). Unfortunately, the system is flawed because one persons 8 is another's 5

[JudgeJulie]

I love this answer and it only shows beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. I don't like rating someone based on a number but it makes sense when you've explained it. Thank you beautiful and I hope you have a good weekend.

[Pomegranate139]

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[JudgeJulie]

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[Pomegranate139]

😂 cmon now there are only One meg blushing photo

[Totally_A_Dude]

Shut up meg

[Pomegranate139]

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[Totally_A_Dude]

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[Klusterfuc]

Personally I hate when I am asked to 'rate' someone on a scale 1-10. I never understood it either because I think its kinda.. stupid. Everyone finds people attractive in different ways so someone could be a '9' to you, but a '4' to someone else.
Accurate? It's a question without a scientific answer. It's a question based on your own opinion.. So it's accurate to you and may not be to others.

[JudgeJulie]

Love this answer gorgeous! I feel the same way, you can never measure how attractive a person is based on a scale. The ratings are inaccurate because they change overtime.

[Klusterfuc]

Thank you!
Glad to know I am not the only one who feels this way.

[JustRollTheDice]

Yeah a 8/10 is really good in technical terms but everyone's rating system varies so it really depends and the reason it's done is just to get and broader perspective or average of what the person looks like

[JudgeJulie]

Thank you beautiful, I agree with how it varies depending on the individual and beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

[likitb4istickit]

Not accurate at all. Guys tend to rate higher the hornier they are. The girl that's an 8 according to the guy that hasn't been laid in 10 years might be a 6 to the same guy after he got laid (and doesn't even need to be with the girl he's rating).

[JudgeJulie]

You believe the scale is based on how aroused a man might be around a woman that he wants to sleep with. I think the scale attractiveness is inaccurate because you can't quantify beauty in general.

[kilowatt04]

To me it's the whole picture of how you look. Not just sex appeal, but approachability, whether you look friendly, honest, cute, healthy, real, and everything else. With all that, I find typical supermodel looking photos to rank very low.

[JudgeJulie]

Thank you for your input, that's a great perspective on someone overall. It's more realistic than just rating someone's looks.

[Totally_A_Dude]

I have always though that the rating system reflects more on your mood than the girls relative hotness. If I kept rerating girls, my ratings would change constantly. About the only girl that is consistently a 10 is Emma Watson.

[JudgeJulie]

I completely agree with you Emma Watson is flawless. I guess our perception on beauty will change overtime.

[Dingsbums]

They just use it to discribe people's looks I guess and also to see who they could date. Some people believe it's best to date people "from league"
I don't really agree with that.
8 out of 10 is good depending on who fave u that vote

[JudgeJulie]

Define from "league" because that's an interesting point you've made. Do people often use this scale or is it a joke?

[Dingsbums]

I only know people from this website who use this scale
From your league means same beauty scale
9s date 9s and so on
A good looking guy who dates a bit so good looking girl would probably seen as desperate or something I don't know

[JudgeJulie]

Thanks for the clarity, I wasn't referring to the people on this website alone I'm talking about in general.

[Dingsbums]

None of my friends use a scale like that in Germany to rate girls

[ak666]

1-2: must be massively wasted
3-4: must be drunk
5: average, doable sober
6: great
7: amazing
8-10: goddess

[JudgeJulie]

Excellent answer and it's very insightful because I had no clue what people's views were on this. Thank you for your time :)

[ak666]

That's just my personal interpretation. Also people move either up or down to me as I get more information about them. A girl I fall for will always rise to 10 no matter where she started.

[ak666]

For me I rarely use the scale unless it's hypothetical and I'm trying to talk about a subject (ex: how a girl who started as a 7 turned into a 10 in my eyes and practically changed my preferences to favor her body overnight). Most of the time attraction for me is binary: "Is the girl attractive to me? Yes or no?" If yes, then it doesn't matter to me where she is on the scale.

[JudgeJulie]

It just shows that personality and compatibility is more important than physical attraction.

[ak666]

To some degree, yeah, though I am a bit shallow. But the thing is that when the compatibility is there or whatever causes me to fall madly for a girl, she'll just end up becoming a 10. I'll want her more than anyone else, and my whole preferences change towards her. It's actually thinking about her body and face and outward qualities alone that still has me thinking, 10/10 at that point.

[ak666]

About "8/10" without the love bias, I have heard some guys say that this is model realm. I tend to think the same.

[JudgeJulie]

True, everything is perfect when you're in love but I don't think you're shallow with the way you've explained things to me. I'll keep that in mind when I get rated randomly next time.

[ak666]

"Shallow" always confused me a bit. For example, when I'm sentimental and missing my wife, the image I have in my head is very visual. It's like an animated picture of her: maybe a little bit exaggerated like a caricature of who she is. There is some audio too, like her voice. And also some memories of how she smells, the perfume she wears, and also sense of touch and what it's like to hold her in my arms. That's what I'm in love with a lot -- this symbolic image in my head. Even the way I fall for a girl is kind of shallow.

[Decentguy]

1-4 below average. 5-6 slightly above average. 7-8 above average and gorgeous.9-10 hot, beautiful, sexy

[JudgeJulie]

Interesting perspective, do men really rate people on this scale?

[Decentguy]

not sure about others but i do

[SunnyCaliGirl]

It dose not mean crap to me, I true beauty is not judged my a number.

[JudgeJulie]

Same, you can't put a number on it and you can't help who you're attracted to. However, I'm curious why people rate others by a number lol

[superdouch]

id say 0 is very ugly, below 5 is under average, 5is average, above 5 is above average, 10 is perfect.
So 8 would mean looking quite attractive

[JudgeJulie]

Thank you for your wonderful input :) do you use this to rate someone's attractiveness?

[superdouch]

no lol everyone has their strong points
And a rating system like that generally relies just on looks and that's about 30% of someone's overall attractiveness.
but I'll do it if someone asks me to like on here

[NukeCanada]

I've noticed most people tend to rate towards the high end, but even so at 8 or above you have to be thinking about model/movie star material.

[JudgeJulie]

Not all models and move stars are attractive. Beauty is subject to each individual. I feel the scale is amusing but inaccurate because you can't base someone off a number.

[Katherine3110hun]

1-3 is ugly.
4 is unattractive but not unpleasant to look at.
5-6 is average.
7-8 is above average.
9-10 is very attractive, like enough to be a model.

[JudgeJulie]

Thank you beautiful, it really helped my understanding of the scale of attractiveness. I hope you have a fabulous weekend.

[Katherine3110hun]

Aww thank you! I hope you do as well! And I'm glad I could help.

[nousefornames]

it's surprising how flexible those #s are.. truthfully there are plenty of reasons that a 8 becomes a 2 or vice versa

[JudgeJulie]

You're right, someone becomes a 0-2 real quick when they have an awful personality :p

[nousefornames]

exactly. there's a lot of great looking people out there, and there are a lot of great people out there.. try finding someone who's great at both lol

[JudgeJulie]

There's a very rare combination and I tend to date guys with better personalities than looks. For me, no one is perfect but if they put effort equally into the relationship it works.

[nousefornames]

It sounds like you have a realistic approach to dating, may I ask why you asked the 1-10 scale question knowing that it's not important to you?

[Anonymous]

It isn't a nice thing to do but I'm guilty of rating people on scales. 8 is pretty good y'know. But yeah, it is plain mean to give someone under-5 unless they are a friend and you are doing it in a joke-y way to their face.

[JudgeJulie]

True, I don't think it's accurate but I know we have been rated by this scale one way or another. Thanks lovely for your input :)

[Anonymous]

People constantly get overrated due to the current horniness of the people rating them.

[JudgeJulie]

Yes, I never use this scale to rate someone's attractiveness. It's interesting to see how people's scales work.

[Opinion Owner]

Plus, one person might be highly attracted to a particular person, and someone else thinks, meh. It is totally subjective. It is true that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

[JudgeJulie]

I just think it's scary to narrow someone down to a number. Some people rate others on their personality and physical attributes.

[Opinion Owner]

I personally make a pro and con list if I am seriously considering someone.
If the pros are equal to or greater than 3 times the cons, then I would go for it.
That includes looks, personality, life goals, morals, history, expectations of me in the relationship, etc.

[JudgeJulie]

I slightly understand how men think since you've explained this notion but I think personality outweighs the looks. People always tell me looks are equally important but some fail to understand that no matter how attractive you are there is always someone out there who's tired of your crap lol

[Opinion Owner]

My first relationship I went purely for looks and it was a big mistake.
Now, as long as she is just "okay", but her personality and other stuff is a good match for me, that matters more.

[Pizzalover101]

A 10 would be Carrie under Wood an a 3 be rossie odonold a 5 Mila kunis

[JudgeJulie]

You crack me up. Good on you mate!

[Pizzalover101]

Thanks have a good 1

[Totally_A_Dude]

I would have switched Mila Kunis and Carrie Underwood, but what ever.

[jessemeyer]

Those scales are just ridiculous... I don't understand how you can estimate people in such a way.

[JudgeJulie]

It's sad and most women have been subjected to this scale. I'm just curious as to what the scale means to people.

[kashan2017]

I don't understand that rating system.
Really who the hell im to rate others.
This is all bulshits.

[mjpw93]

6/10 isn't bad 7/10 is good 8/10 freaking hot

[JudgeJulie]

Thanks for being blunt and I appreciate it :p

[Arya_Christ]

I don't rate.. I compliment..

[JudgeJulie]

High five, me too! I don't rate people unless if they really push it. I like complimenting because I can't quantify beauty.

[Anonymous]

i don't like rating with numbers, i just use words

[JudgeJulie]

Same :) thanks for your input lovely

[Seppelson]

from 1-5 It's bad higher than 6 is good

[JudgeJulie]

Interesting, why is 6 and above better?

[Seppelson]

because 10 is the most beautiful in this rating and 6 is clother than 5

[Prince555]

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