Ranking colleges by hotness of female students: Princeton > UCLA

[maurile]

Here's an interesting study.

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First we used thefacebook, an online college directory where virtually every student is registered, to gather pictures of girls from the class of 2008 at 10 different schools. The schools were chosen in order to provide as much diversity for the study as possible: we chose small liberal arts colleges as well as big universities from around the country, with varying levels of academic competitiveness in each case (see the schools section for the list). 35 girls were chosen at each school using a random number generator. The pictures were filed numerically, with no names recorded for anyone involved. If it wasn’t clear in a facebook picture who the actual girl was, the picture was discarded and a new random picture was chosen.

Next we registered each picture on HOTorNOT.com; a website where people can rate anonymous pictures on a scale of 1 to 10 based on attractiveness. We waited until each picture had at least 300 votes (which took up to a month in some cases), and then recorded the (mean) average score. We figured that after 300 votes the picture's rating was an accurate score, especially since HOTorNOT themselves says that most picture's scores don’t change much after as few as 50 votes.

After that we analyzed the sample data from the 35 girls at each school using a graphing calculator, and put our findings on this website. You can go to our results section to see what we found out.

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I'd have liked to see a bigger sample from each school -- maybe 100 women instead of 35. I'd also like to see more schools included in the study. But the basic idea here is a good one.

The results:

Rank School Average

1st Albion College 7.60

2nd Michigan State University 7.55

3rd University of Oregon 7.52

4th Vanderbilt University 7.49

5th University of Michigan 7.11

6th Princeton University 7.06

7th University of California, Los Angeles 6.78

8th Stanford University 6.75

9th University of Puget Sound 6.35

10th University of Chicago 6.07