Men more likely to agree on "attractiveness" than women...

[Coito ergo sum]

http://www.livescience.com/5502-men-agr ... women.html

What men want: Despite another recent study that found modern men are more interested in intelligent, educated women than in decades past, in the new study men tended to base their attractiveness ratings on women's physical features, giving stellar marks to those who looked thin and seductive. Most of the men in the study also rated photographs of women who looked confident as more attractive.

What women want: Women showed some preference for thin, muscular men. But they also disagreed over the hotness factor of many men, with some women giving a guy high attractiveness ratings while others scored the same guy as not attractive at all.

The study basically said that if you take a room full of guys, and asked them to rate women for hotness, the men will be in general agreement as to which women are hot, and which not. But, take a room full of women, and ask them to rate men for hotness, and the women will be all over the map, with some women finding men hot, while other women find the same men to be un-hot.

Tawk amongst yaselves!

[maiforpeace]

http://www.livescience.com/5502-men-agr ... women.html

What men want: Despite another recent study that found modern men are more interested in intelligent, educated women than in decades past, in the new study men tended to base their attractiveness ratings on women's physical features, giving stellar marks to those who looked thin and seductive. Most of the men in the study also rated photographs of women who looked confident as more attractive.

What women want: Women showed some preference for thin, muscular men. But they also disagreed over the hotness factor of many men, with some women giving a guy high attractiveness ratings while others scored the same guy as not attractive at all.

The study basically said that if you take a room full of guys, and asked them to rate women for hotness, the men will be in general agreement as to which women are hot, and which not. But, take a room full of women, and ask them to rate men for hotness, and the women will be all over the map, with some women finding men hot, while other women find the same men to be un-hot.

Tawk amongst yaselves!

Depends on what your definition of "hot" is...for men much of it has to do with how much she makes him 'schwing', no?

[klr]

"Women impossible to fathom"

- old news is old

[Gallstones]

I already have the best there is and he's the handsomest man in the world.
I like the way he turns my crank.

[Bella Fortuna]

Men have a much lower common denominator: pulse.

[Coito ergo sum]

http://www.livescience.com/5502-men-agr ... women.html

What men want: Despite another recent study that found modern men are more interested in intelligent, educated women than in decades past, in the new study men tended to base their attractiveness ratings on women's physical features, giving stellar marks to those who looked thin and seductive. Most of the men in the study also rated photographs of women who looked confident as more attractive.

What women want: Women showed some preference for thin, muscular men. But they also disagreed over the hotness factor of many men, with some women giving a guy high attractiveness ratings while others scored the same guy as not attractive at all.

The study basically said that if you take a room full of guys, and asked them to rate women for hotness, the men will be in general agreement as to which women are hot, and which not. But, take a room full of women, and ask them to rate men for hotness, and the women will be all over the map, with some women finding men hot, while other women find the same men to be un-hot.

Tawk amongst yaselves!

Depends on what your definition of "hot" is...for men much of it has to do with how much she makes him 'schwing', no?

The study would seem to show that men are more unified in what they deem to be hot than women are. Women's definitions apparently vary more than men.

[Horwood Beer-Master]

This is the opposite of what I would have thought

[rachelbean]

I know that who I find attractive and who my female friends do tends to vary pretty greatly, so that's not terribly surprising.

[Coito ergo sum]

Men have a much lower common denominator: pulse.

Not for hotness.

You are correct to a point, but there are different levels of assessment.

There is:

Hot: Hot is hot; not is not. We know what is hot, and having a pulse certainly is not that threshold.

Doable: This is not equivalent to hot, and is also generally well above pulse.

Doable, if nobody will find out, or if subsequent plausible deniability exists: Pulse, or nearly above pulse. This category is represented by the term "Moped." Fun to ride, but you never want to let your friends see you on one.

These are the main categories, with some nuance and perhaps subcategories being extant. It's that last category that many women find most alarming. I find that women generally don't have such a category. Although, they have a different category - the "Mercy" category -- where a guy puts up a good showing, does all the right things, and can't be faulted on paper, but he just doesn't "do it" for her -- so, she may throw him a mercy hummer or a mercy ride. I'm aware of the existence of this category, but the ladies are certainly in a better position to expound on its limits and parameters.

[Coito ergo sum]

I know that who I find attractive and who my female friends do tends to vary pretty greatly, so that's not terribly surprising.

I think I would have guessed the result, too. I'm not all that surprised.

I find that men's assessment of physical attractive "tends" to be more static. Natalie Portman is hot, and she's hot whether she's a bitch or an angel. She's still hot. I find women's assessment to vary greatly on their perception of personality or other attributes. A hot guy can become non-hot through being identified as a flaming asshole.

I may be speaking out of turn, but that's the impression I have gotten over the years from women.

[Atheist-Lite]

I wouldn't like to generalise however women are encouraged to dress attractively as unique individuals in this culture whilst men are expected to more or less wear grey suits and be a team player. This expectation may explain some of the difficulty women have in identifying attractive males and could be isolated using a follow up study where the same dozen men are either seen by women performing individualised tasks or as a team in similar garb. If the preferences are random with both groups my conjecture dies in the water. If women are more consistent in their choices with men as indivduals I'm right. If everything goes the other way Sylvia Plath wins a gin and tonic.