So is the takeaway that in the abstract people think that 9/10 means 90th percentile, but when people rate others they actually rate them on a normal distribution?
I've wondered this exact question. I liked the uniform distribution more than the normal distribution for 1-10 personal rating. If you consider it for not just yourself but the whole population, maybe a normal distribution is more appropriate. That seems to be what people think anyway. People probably only consider people in their age cohort when they do this. If you're 25, you're probably not considering 55 year olds. Any study of attraction should be careful about the wording and probably explicitly ask for a percentile rather than 1-10.
"alas, I am not Aella, my surveys don't get 1000 horny men to provide free labor"
Emil, maybe you should post more pictures of yourself so you can get 1000 women to help you with your surveys. BTW, how worthwhile do you find her survey data? Probably really unrepresentative.
So is the takeaway that in the abstract people think that 9/10 means 90th percentile, but when people rate others they actually rate them on a normal distribution?
IME, people are bad at percentages (see e.g. https://mobile.twitter.com/StefanFSchubert/status/1499314417565061120), so I'm not sure you get meaningful results by asking what percentiles the 0/10 ratings correspond to.
I've wondered this exact question. I liked the uniform distribution more than the normal distribution for 1-10 personal rating. If you consider it for not just yourself but the whole population, maybe a normal distribution is more appropriate. That seems to be what people think anyway. People probably only consider people in their age cohort when they do this. If you're 25, you're probably not considering 55 year olds. Any study of attraction should be careful about the wording and probably explicitly ask for a percentile rather than 1-10.
"alas, I am not Aella, my surveys don't get 1000 horny men to provide free labor"
Emil, maybe you should post more pictures of yourself so you can get 1000 women to help you with your surveys. BTW, how worthwhile do you find her survey data? Probably really unrepresentative.