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Re:Show HN: Compare your perception of female attractiveness... by econgeeker on Thursday July 07, 2011 @10:56PM (#2741150)
This tells me a lot about what you think is attractive. To be honest, only 2 of the celebrities were ones I would consider to be on the attractive side of the coin.

Currently, gaunt looking women, are considered "attractive". Many of these women are extremely thin or have unusual bone structure.

Megan Fox and Olivia Wilde, for instance, are really unattractive women. (I personally like Olivia Wilde quite a bit as an actress, and bear no ill will against Megan Fox)

There are a huge variety of women out there, and from my perspective, you've presented a list consisting only of a narrow range of the spectrum.

No offense intended, this is meant to be honest feedback.

Re:Show HN: Compare your perception of female attractiveness... by jemka on Thursday July 07, 2011 @10:43PM (#2741132)
I found myself making decisions based on things other than attractiveness alone.

This might be better done w/ unknown stock photos. But I realize it's really just an exercise in programming.

Re:Show HN: Compare your perception of female attractiveness... by rokhayakebe on Thursday July 07, 2011 @07:10PM (#2740662)
Thank you for making my day. I have a long way to go. Long way.
Re:Show HN: Compare your perception of female attractiveness... by IvarTJ on Thursday July 07, 2011 @07:04PM (#2740642)
Is the order of the selection randomized each time?
Re:Show HN: Compare your perception of female attractiveness... by lunchbox on Thursday July 07, 2011 @07:13PM (#2740668)
I just changed it to be randomized based on your comment, and reset the ranking. Before that it ranked them based on average score, which has the problem of creating a winner-takes all situation. Thanks!
Re:Show HN: Compare your perception of female attractiveness... by pbreit on Thursday July 07, 2011 @07:08PM (#2740658)
Doesn't look like it. Which renders the results mostly useless.

What should be presented is how far they moved from the initial order.

Re:Show HN: Compare your perception of female attractiveness... by bcRIPster on Thursday July 07, 2011 @07:09PM (#2740661)
Looking at the results, this appears to be almost certainly the case that the initial order of the set isn't random.
Re:Show HN: Compare your perception of female attractiveness... by lunchbox on Thursday July 07, 2011 @07:52PM (#2740752)
After your comment, I changed it to be random.
Re:Show HN: Compare your perception of female attractiveness... by astrofinch on Thursday July 07, 2011 @08:43PM (#2740862)
Did you also discard the data from before it was random?
Re:Show HN: Compare your perception of female attractiveness... by lunchbox on Thursday July 07, 2011 @08:53PM (#2740880)
Yes.
Re:Show HN: Compare your perception of female attractiveness... by lunchbox on Thursday July 07, 2011 @06:34PM (#2740562)
This was a fun little project I did last weekend to familiarize myself with Google App Engine and jQuery.
Re:Show HN: Compare your perception of female attractiveness... by Luyt on Thursday July 07, 2011 @07:08PM (#2740659)
I have a question: Could I see little portrait pictures of the celebrities next to their name?
Re:Show HN: Compare your perception of female attractiveness... by lunchbox on Thursday July 07, 2011 @07:14PM (#2740674)
What's your Browser/OS? It is supposed to have pictures.
Re:Show HN: Compare your perception of female attractiveness... by Luyt on Friday July 08, 2011 @09:14AM (#2742267)
OSX with Firefox. I'll try Safari too.

EDIT: It works correctly in Safari.

Re:Show HN: Compare your perception of female attractiveness... by pixcavator on Thursday July 07, 2011 @10:44PM (#2741133)
I think it might be a good idea to do pairwise comparison instead.
Re:Show HN: Compare your perception of female attractiveness... by paulocal on Thursday July 07, 2011 @06:58PM (#2740629)
This was fun!
Re:Show HN: Compare your perception of female attractiveness... by hezekiah on Thursday July 07, 2011 @07:48PM (#2740746)
doesnt work on touch devices