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Re: Do you have a mathematically attractive face?

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Post by a_n » Sun, Feb 08, 2026, 10:37 AM UTC

cjbgkagh wrote: post #6

zachYCB wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The top-ranks on the leaderboard has me convinced this is a poor predictor of actual attractiveness to actual humans. You should have an option to privately rate a photo and not post it publicly. Seems like a big oversight.

lol, yikes, yeah at least start with a hot-or-not baseline as a sanity test.

people are subjective, math is objective ;)

Re: Do you have a mathematically attractive face?

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Post by a_n » Sun, Feb 08, 2026, 10:42 AM UTC

snayan wrote: post #10

a_n wrote: post #2

I made this site where you upload a photo of your face and it ranks your face on a bunch of measurable parameters , and then gives you a final rating based on how close your features are to the ideal face. There is also a public leaderboard. This went kind of viral at my uni when i launched it, like over a 1000 people have gotten their ratings and people seem so exicted to see where there friends rank etc. curious to…

This is fascinating... I am curious, are any concerns with the algorithm being raised? Or are people blindly accepting their ranking?

i do think people sort of accepted the ratings cos 1) a lot of people with really high ratings were posting it on their instagram story 2) a lot of people tried to upload a lot of photos to try to get a higher rating 3) some people dm'd me sad messages like why do i have such a low rating haha

Re: Do you have a mathematically attractive face?

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Post by a_n » Sun, Feb 08, 2026, 10:50 AM UTC

snayan wrote: post #8

hot or not is back. I think the algorithm is janky based on the list. But, history has shown that people love to see how they rank up. Historically, these sort of sites allowed users to rank each other. Given yours is algorithm based, it'd make sense to give some context as to how the algorithm works... and an example of the 'ideal face' according to the algorithm.

sure, the algo basically is i calculate a bunch of objective details about your face (like angle for canthal tilt, distance ratios for mouth etc) , you can see these measurements in the overlaid images you get when you rate yourself. then according to the research online, i try to give a single score according to these measurements, for example, a positive canthal tilt is conventionally looked as more attractive. similarly less error in rule of fifths is seen as better or a specific face ratio as 0.42 is looked as the best, so i assign your mesasruemtns a specific single score according to this research. and then i combine these using some weights to get a final rating. yeah feels like the facemash moment for my uni lmao

Re: Do you have a mathematically attractive face?

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Post by cjbgkagh » Sun, Feb 08, 2026, 1:47 PM UTC

a_n wrote: post #21

cjbgkagh wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

lol, yikes, yeah at least start with a hot-or-not baseline as a sanity test.

people are subjective, math is objective ;)

The people high on that leaderboard are objectively ugly. Attractiveness is pretty consistent across individuals and cultures with only minor variations.