Decile

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Visualization of OkCupid Data with Decile in correlation to population rankings

The decile scale is a 1 to 10 scale widely used to rank attractiveness. Such scales have been used for at least a century and calling someone a "nine" or "ten" is extremely common lingo. The decile scale was popularized by the shitty film "10" in 1979 and by the rating website "Hot or Not" in the 2000s.

Details

In common usage, the decile scale is only used to rank by superficial appearance as people care the most about looks in a potential partner at first. Although easy to use, rating only looks has several weaknesses as a general means of raking potential mates:

• People do agree substantially about the looks of others, especially at the extremes of looks (the Cronbach's alpha, a measure of internal reliability, i.e. agreement, for attractiveness ratings is typically high, >0.8). However, especially in the mid-range (deciles 3-7), different raters rank the same individual quite differently depending on their individual preferences ("beauty is in the eye of the beholder" - W. Shakespeare). Nonetheless, a 5 will always be in the 5th decile according to the ratings of many, so many however that the scale is impractical for telling, say, 5 and 6 apart.

• Looks are at most only weakly related to other desirable traits, but only when women look for long term partners, whilst they put a high importance on looks for short term relationships, or for cheating. The “good genes” (dual mating strategy) hypothesis posits infidelity allows women to pair the preferred genes of an affair partner with the preferred investment of their primary partner. Indeed, some women may prefer a male partner not be too good-looking because they perceive attractive men to be arrogant, egotistical, unfaithful, or otherwise low quality mates; however, much of this may be virtue signalling due to a stigma against those males being seen as 'shallow'. Women do take the attractiveness of potential male partners into account when estimating these men's likelihood of being unfaithful, but this trait is apparently not related to men's propensity to actually be unfaithful.

• Looks are also only weakly related to sexual success. Even though in one study unattractive people (of either sex) faced a 1.5-3 times higher chance of remaining virgin during early adulthood, all of the 26 very unattractive men in that study did have sex by around age 28. Hence, it is somewhat misleading to categorize a 2 as an incel.

Criticism of decile ratings

Some argue that the concept of decile ratings is flawed as it does not necessarily concept to the scientific measurement of attractiveness as a trait that is distributed in the population. It is also not clear what is being measured with these subjective judgements, either subjective desirability or perceived flawlessness according to a specific attractiveness standard.

Table

See also: Inceldom spectrum

Decile	Males			Females			Male experience
10	Gigachad			Gigastacy			Sex tents Tutorial mode
9	Chad			Stacy
8	Chadlite			Stacylite
7	male High-tier normy			High-tier Becky
6	Brad	Male mid-tier normy		Becky	Female mid-tier normy		Betabux, Cuckmaxx
5	Tanner			Low-tier Becky			Betabux, Cuckmaxx
4	Melvin	male Low-tier normy		Gertrude	Female Low-tier normy		Betabux, Cuckmaxx
3	Incelish	Semicel	Failed normie	Femcelish	Femcel-lite	High-tier femcel	Inceldom spectrum, NEET, sexual frustration, SEAmaxxing
2	Incel (male inceldom)			Femcel (foid inceldom)			Inceldom spectrum, NEET, sexual frustration, SEAmaxxing
1	Truecel (Omega male)			Truefemcel (Omega female)			Inceldom spectrum, NEET, sexual frustration, Genetic dead end

Correlation with Data

According to the works from OkCupid, people who are rated 5 or above are the top 20% of the population, and those that are rated higher than the 7.5 range are the top 4% of the population (thus follows the 80/20 Rule). Also as a side note, the population median is ~2.75, the 20th percentile is ~1, and the 4th percentile is ~0.25.

Warning on Influence-Free Rated Attractiveness, Percentile Attractiveness and Message/Reply Rate

The cited research has forgotten the difference between rated attractiveness, percentile attractiveness, and reply rate (as an honest representation of attractiveness).

Rated attractiveness and percentile attractiveness can be platform agnostic (if given an environment where the male ratees are not present, as to control for Virtue signaling)

Reply rate can often skew one way or another based on the media platform's Life history preference (see Wheat Waffle's Attraction Scale and Online vs Cold Approach).

Warning on literal vs figurative decile

Emil Kirkegaard has noted that the decile rating directly corresponds to perceived decile attractiveness ranking. Since it is near linear for women from the men's perspectives, but power law distributed for men from women's perspective, it reaffirms the idea that uglycels are invisible to women.

PSL scale

Another scale is the PSL rating scale which goes from 1-8. To find out your position on the PSL scale, deduct 2 points from the rating you recieved on the much more common decile scale. The idea behind it is that a man's position on the PSL scale directly correlates with how women perceive him. In the statistics released by the dating site OkCupid, men received much more harsh ratings (81% percent of them being rated as below average looking) by women than vice versa. Thus a male 7 will not actually be considered on par with female 7 in terms of their SMV, but will instead be perceived as a 5.

See also

• PSL rating
• Dominance hierarchy
• Sexual market value
• Beauty
• Chad names by location
• Sub8 theory
• Chadjacent