For what it’s worth, I remember a study on Stanford undergrads with what was essentially speed dating; men suggested their interest in a second date with ~90% of the women they met, and simultaneously their top criterion for that choice was attractiveness. Even granting that they had loose definitions caused by the study, I suspect that under Dan’s metric (binary choice) a reasonably large minority might be tagged “pretty.”
I also didn’t get the impression from the photos on the website that anybody in the Knox case was pretty in the sense that you mean it—I think of your criterion as defining “remarkably pretty” rather than “pretty, if I had to choose,” and I’d say you’re probably right on <5% being remarkably pretty.
For what it’s worth, I remember a study on Stanford undergrads with what was essentially speed dating; men suggested their interest in a second date with ~90% of the women they met, and simultaneously their top criterion for that choice was attractiveness. Even granting that they had loose definitions caused by the study, I suspect that under Dan’s metric (binary choice) a reasonably large minority might be tagged “pretty.”
I also didn’t get the impression from the photos on the website that anybody in the Knox case was pretty in the sense that you mean it—I think of your criterion as defining “remarkably pretty” rather than “pretty, if I had to choose,” and I’d say you’re probably right on <5% being remarkably pretty.