The quiz:
The Sexual Market Value Quiz | GuidedTrack
Aella's blog (contains some posts explaining past studies she did that contributed to the methodology of the quiz):
Knowingless | Aella | Substack
Aella's xitter (where I came across the quiz and also includes occasional relevant tidbits of info):
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@Ataraxia my condolences π
There are a few different possible interpretations:
The ratings and character comparison are indeed way too harsh, as I discovered a month or so back when I tried answering it while pretending to be conventionally mid as both genders and somehow got given "Gollum (LOTR) (0.05th percentile)", which I know isn't due to me misunderstanding which traits are attractive since when I pretended to be maximally hot I got 99.5th and when I pretended to be maximally gross I got 0.05th again
Given the especially low sexual proclivities subscore in particular, it's possibly due to either low sex drive, uncommon sexual orientations, sexual dominance, rare extreme kinks, or very high body count (not saying it's fair, just that I'm fairly confident those factors do affect the score, due to social norms)
Maybe it's because you have your favourites bar CLOGGED up with RANDOM individual YouTube videos like a HEATHEN instead of having frequent-reference website homepages sorted into orderly multi tiered folders like a SANE person! /s
Maybe it's because I can see you CHEATING on my "people from before 550BC" poll! /s
The fact that there is so far a reasonably even spread (maybe slight bias towards lower numbers) seems to be a light point in favour of the quiz, it gives percentiles and by definition each percentile is meant to have the same number of people
β¦based on 13 respondents.
Root mean squared error: 12.14 points
The median respondent scored 9.38 points lower than expected.
The average respondent scored 11.04 points lower than expected.
Every respondent scored between 1.35 and 18 points lower than to be expected from a uniform distribution.
Paired t-test (Null Hypothesis: True Bias > 0): p = 3.344Γ10^-6
Paired t-test (Null Hypothesis: True Bias > -7.5): p = 0.01607β¦
(These p-values are not independent, of course.)
I am skeptical that the entire bias is due to the cohort and think the test is at least a little biased.
@No_uh if i were to have guessed my percentile prior to this I would have thought i was somewhere between 40-50. I feel complimented but don't necessarily feel convinced I am more marketable than I thought. Maybe something I chose here between two options has a disproportionate weight, idk.
@No_uh when I was experimenting trying to get the highest scores possible I worked on the assumption based on a mixture of common sense and stuff I've read from Aella that for men high sex drive, dominance, being straight, monogamy, and lack of paraphilias lead to the highest sexual proclivities score, but I can't be sure because bizarrely the quiz only tells you the highest and lowest subscores
@gamedev wow, that's about the physical score I got when I pretended to be the most conventionally attractive romance novel love interest possible, if you answered similar to what I did to get that (e.g. very tall, low fat, significant but not obscene muscle, very handsome, large but not impractical dong etc.) then I definitely wouldn't be surprised if you are at very least top 2%, plausibly top 0.5% as it says
@gamedev Well, but apparently you are swift as the coursing river, with all the force of a great typhoon, with all the strength of a raging fire, and mysterious as the dark side of the Moon.
@TheAllMemeingEye Yes, that's about what I answered physically, but I had a tricky time with the face test... not because I think I'm either ugly, or super hot, but kinda somewhere inbetween, and all the dudes faces looked kinda inbetween to me anyways.
My wife does tell me I'm quite "hot", but I've never really believed her because I have not typically attracted boatloads of women as some men do. But I guess I'm gonna just roll with it! π
@4fa surprised the personality score is so low, based on our interactions you come across kind and interesting π€
Also I find it funny that they felt the need to specify that you are the version of Gandhi from Gandhi (presumably a biopic movie?), rather than e.g. the version from epic rap battles of history
