Larger
Breasts = Lower Grades? Online Voters Say
'Yes'
Visitors to WhatsMyImage.com have voted:
Breast size inversely proportional to perceived
Grade Point Average. Gender and Race also
studied.
Princeton,
NJ
(PRWEB) February 21, 2006 –- Since
its launch in May 2005, WhatsMyImage.com
has become a popular destination for web
surfers across the globe. Members of the
completely free website upload photos of
themselves, from which complete strangers
then make guesses about the details of their
private lives. Question topics range from
academic performance to physical attributes
to sexual experience and beyond.
The
founders of WhatsMyImage.com
recently decided to analyze the hundreds
of thousands of votes that had been accumulating
on their web servers since May. They focused
specifically on how self-reported properties
such as race, gender, and physical appearance
were correlated to perceived Grade Point
Average (GPA).
The
study yielded some interesting results.
Although gender did not appear to be correlated
to voters’ assumptions about a person’s
GPA, a correlation to race did exist. Specifically,
voters guessed that Asian students had higher
GPAs than their Caucasian and African-American
counterparts by an average of over 0.2 points
(on a 4.0 scale).
Perhaps
most interesting, however, was the staggering
correlation between female bra size and
GPA. On average, voters guessed that “A-cup”
students had GPAs that were 0.3 points higher
than those of “D-cup” students.
“B-cup” and “C-cup”
students were voted to have GPAs in the
middle of that range, each averaging about
0.2 points higher than the “D-cup”
group.
When
discussing these results, the site’s
founders are quick to point out that this
is a study of public opinion, not fact.
“We have no reason to believe that
there is an actual link between any of these
attributes and Grade Point Average,”
commented WhatsMyImage.com
co-founder Sameer Shariff. “This analysis
simply suggests that our voters may subscribe
to the stereotypes reflected in its results.”
Co-founder
Robert J. Moore, an Operations Research
and Financial Engineering major at Princeton
University, also warned against interpreting
these results as anything but entertainment:
“This is certainly not a study of
any academic caliber. These responses are
vulnerable to selection bias and could also
be influenced by any number of confounding
variables.”
For
more information, or to register a free
account, visit www.whatsmyimage.com.
Press Contact: Robert Moore
Company Name: WHAT'S MY IMAGE DOT COM
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Phone: 856-308-9661
Website: http://www.whatsmyimage.com
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