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Daniel can you please expand on the Helenic beauty scale.....


Can you possibly explain the difference between the looks of a woman of 587 mh vs a woman of 588 mh (millihelens) ??

A slight edge .... that is all, and that only in the eye of the beholder!

Simply a much finer scale Gil, clearly these would be women who are definitely better than a five, but not quite a six, as scored on the old BD scale. It is exactly the same amount of subjectively perceived difference as is the objective measurement difference found between .587" & .588" in measuring the diameter of a part. It is slight, but there is a difference.

Point is that it is just a scale of reference, for personal recordation of a subjective judgement. It could be as subtle as a slightly less or more attractive earlobe, or the more or less favorable position or a mole or beauty mark, the pout of lips, the tint of hair, the shade of eye, the arc of eyebrow or the shape of nose. Perhaps just a slight variance in the glow of skin could make that little difference.

What this scale can do is allow for a better precision on the comparison of individual judgments, such that if you have half a dozen guys out ogling the fairer specimens of the species, adding up their combined scores and dividing by the number of scores submitted will give you a fairly precise rating of that particular subject, at that time on that day as seen by those "judges". Of course if you add much alcohol into the mix, the fineness of the scale is immediately lost, and you may as well revert back to the old BD scale at that point .... as case in point, a subject that is rated as "a 2 at 10:00 pm, may yet be seen as a 10 at 2:00 am", if you get my drift. No need for a finer scale in such a debauched instance!

Hope that helps with your calibration!