Online dating people

I've been meaning to do this post for awhile, and only now am I finally getting around to it. This is going to be kind of similar to that huge long post I did about actors, but this time, I'm going to be rating the various people I see on the online dating website. There will be 4 categories, as follows: ugly, below average, average, above average. I'm just going to tally up how many people fit into each category, in my opinion. I won't pay attention to whether or not they have a high compatibility rating for this. I have the settings set to show people within (I think) 50 miles, but not sorted by compatibility - it's just a random blend. Also, another category: shave! (for people who would look at least somewhat better if they shaved off their facial hair - this one overlaps with the other categories) If a person doesn't have a good enough picture for me to tell which category they belong in, I'll skip them. So here goes!

Ugly: o o o o o o o o o o o o o o 14 

Below average: o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o 27

Average: o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o 148

Somewhat above average: o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o 20

Particularly above average: o o-somewhat 1.5  

Shave!: o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o 26 

It all calculates out at to having looked at 209 profile pictures, about 70% of which were "average." Average to me means neither particularly ugly nor good looking. Just under 10 percent were a bit better looking ("somewhat above average") than the rest, but nothing particularly beautiful. "Somewhat above average" is not good looking enough for me to want to date. 14 I considered to be not just "below average," but "ugly." About 10 percent were "below average", which means they were notably kind of bad looking, but not terribly ugly. 

Picture quality did play some of a role in my ratings - someone who may have been "average" but had a particularly unflattering picture got put into the "below average" category, and so on. Under 1% (one percent!) of the people I saw were "particularly above average." That does not give me a lot of hope regarding this online dating thing... :( 

I wonder what other people would find if they did a similar survey of the people who come up for them. Maybe other people have lower standards than me, and/or perhaps there is a larger number of good looking people in other locations. 

*This was just regarding men. It could be interesting to change my settings so it would only show me women and do the survey again. I wonder how different the results would be.