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When I was younger I really didn’t get societal norms super well, a girl asked me to rate her and I thought she was not ugly, not gorgeous, I gave her a 7 out of 10. She was offended lol. Didn’t even realize she was flirting with me until years later lmao

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What a stupid way to flirt

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It’s basically just asking if you think they’re cute lol

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Yeah but there’s 101 ways to do that, are they expecting a 10 lol

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28 points

You fell for one of the oldest tricks in the book.

In the future, when a girl asks you to rate her, the answer is always 10.

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26 points

What you don’t tell her is that you were using binary.

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15 points

Tell her she’s a 9 and 1/2 but she’d be a 10 back at your place.

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7 points

Tell her she’s a 4 but you can give her 6 more at home

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No I just tell people I don’t rate people that way. Because for one my attraction is not based on appearance mostly, and also no one is a 10 to me because no one is perfect, so they’ll never be happy with the answer. So I outright refuse with that reasoning. Like I’m not gonna rate the girl over there that’s clearly pretty who may be more physically attractive just so I can rate you lower physically despite caring for you more and finding you way more attractive overall.

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You sound like the dude in the image lol. I don’t mean that in a bad way, just a funny observation. I get it too, because whenever my friends and I see a movie we have these sort of debates. I rate 1 to 5 and everyone else does 1 to 10. I say I can’t do 1 to 10 because it is too granular and it’s a subjective thing anyways. It’s funny how something so simple as “rate X on a scale of whatever” can turn into such a massive dilemma.

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23 points

F

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I didn’t even realize until you mentioned it. I’m what they call a lost cause lol.

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Culture plays into it too. For example here in Finland, school grades are from 4 (failed) to 10, and that ends up skewing how you see any scale from 1 to 10.

As a bit of trivia, originally there were grades lower than 4, but at some point it was decided it wasn’t necessary to determine just how badly you failed. Knowing that you did should be enough. So all the failing grades were bundled up into one, which ended up being the previously highest failing grade.

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US schools definitely mess with your head the higher of an achiever you are.

In remedial classes, in most places, 60 is passing.
In normal classes, in most places, 70 is passing.
In advanced classes, you may be kicked out for scoring under 80.

The intuitive concept of “barely good enough” keeps getting higher as you perform better, plus of course each of these types of classes are progressively more difficult by their nature. It really fucks with people who are excellent in some subjects but average in others.

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10 points

“D” is for Diploma.

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Is that percentage of points or just an arbitrary grade scale?

Because that’s quite funny compared to the (non-US) university I attend where you pass the difficult classes with “just” 33% of points.

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Percentage of points. So if you get half of the questions wrong on a test, you fail. In some cases, teachers will grade “on a curve”, meaning they normalize the class scores. My organic chem teacher in college liked to make extremely difficult tests, so you’d get 40% or something awful like that and it would turn out that nobody in the class scored over 50% so you actually got an A.

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In all my normal classes, 60 was the cutoff for passing. In my advanced classes it was 80. Never saw a 70 cutoff though.

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23 points

Weird way to say I don’t care but actually I care a lot

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19 points

I just realized that 6 is basically a dick pictogram

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13 points

Legit read this as ‘Dicktogram’.

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6 points

The social media we really need…n’t.

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There’s a hilarious Soviet math joke about it

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Is 6/10 the new 5/7?

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A perfect score… I thought it was but a legend.

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