"Attractivenss rate" of the general population? (According to you)

[WeShallUnclench]

Inspired by a series of polls I found on another site.

1) The intention of the pollster seemed to be, if you look at whatever counts as your "population of potential partners" (gender and age range, so "young men" or "older women", etc.), how many of those people would you estimate are "attractive" to you?

So I am now asking you this.

2) Now, one interesting reply that popped up in the poll was the complaint "I cannot answer this without having seen every single person in that group first".

So second question is, was that also YOUR first reflex? Or do you feel you got a pretty good grasp of that group, collectively, based on your life experience, and you can make a call based on that?

Fun fact: in the poll, the complaint seemed to come exclusively regarding women (given the site's demographics, I wager mostly from lesbians and trans men).
Regarding men, absolutely nobody had that complaint, and everyone was comfortable risking a collective estimate.

 

[Shaglus_Ziegler]

The general population in the USA is getting worse by the minute.

 

[alexgriffin74]

Interesting. Personally I separate "hot" and "attractive". Hot is physicality, attractive is the full package that includes personality, behavior, sense of humor etc.

 

[NippleMuncher]

"Attractiveness" has absolutely nothing to do with physical attributes. There are those who are a 10 in the looks department but are a zero in every other arena. There are also those that would be considered very low on the 1-10 scale but have an inner beauty that far outweighs the physical attributes.

IMO, personal preference also has absolutely nothing to do with physical attributes, again for the same reasons as above, as well as one's own personal perspective of their own value on the 1-10 scale and what they believe that they can pull for themselves.

Am I attracted to physical beauty? Absolutely! Who isn't? But, beauty is literally only skin deep. What is behind the beauty, that is what interests me the most. It is the mind and the sole that my connections are made with.