Experiment how steep should decile bell curve be? who decides?

[Sheogorath]

There seems to be agreement that decile ratings don't represent equal 10% increments.
IE if 10/10 = gigachad, 10% of the population is NOT a gigachad.
But what should the % be for each rating?

Here is an example of a bell curve which seems closer to how we use it.

These numbers aren't set in stone, the curve could be made steeper, which would result in the tips (1+10) becoming smaller (sub 2% or sub 1%) and the middle (5 and 6) becoming larger (higher than 20% or 25% each)

I don't know how we debate this though.

Historically have people made statements estimating what % they think certain tiers are?

Also how common is the miconception that "5 is average" even though clearly it has to be 5.5 as the midpoint of 1 and 10 since you can't be rated 0

 

[Linesnap99]

its just a normal distribution mate

 

[Swagpilled]

something like this

 

[Linesnap99]

5.5 is not the midpoint, its more like 4

 

[Linesnap99]

View attachment 806370
something like this

 

[Swagpilled]

View attachment 806389

hahahahaha. I basically tried making a more steep bell curve. I think there's alot less 1/10s, 10/10s than there would be in a regular curve

 

[Cuckoja]

Depends on the region, in my town if the guy had 7/10 face it would put him in the top 10 people out of 15k of males, most men here have like 3-4 face, legit never saw in real life a guy who would be rated on the internet 8+.

 

[Sheogorath]

View attachment 806370
something like this

bro that's not a bell

What are you asking here?

Why did you make this post?

how steep the bell curve and which % distribution of population at each of the 10 rankings

am I not explaining it properly?

There are other types of curves which cold also represent a higher % in the middle rankings, here are 3 other terms above.

For comparison, if distribution was "10% per ranking" all things equal, then the graph would be a straight horizontal line.

Maybe this is more intuitive for me because I read about stuff like the odds for dice results on 3D6 from playing a lot of GURPS

5.5 is not the midpoint, its more like 4

That's not how it should work, 4 is only halfway if you ranked people from 0 to 8 or 1 to 7.

 

[Swagpilled]

bro that's not a bell

yeah, that's the point. it's not equal distribution

 

[MrTihler]

Depends on the region, in my town if the guy had 7/10 face it would put him in the top 10 people out of 15k of males, most men here have like 3-4 face, legit never saw in real life a guy who would be rated on the internet 8+.

where'd you live?

 

[Cuckoja]

where'd you live?

Small town in Serbia, here men aged 25+ are all balding and skinnyfat. They are tall on average 6'0-6'1 and rarely see a guy shorter than 5'11. Here height is everything.

 

[Sheogorath]

yeah, that's the point. it's not equal distribution

Bells aren't equal distribution either, like I said, equal is a straight line.
But whatever the slope you'd expect a curve that peaks in the middle and is symmetrical
This describes mesukurtic / leptokurtic / platykurtic curves too

 

[Swagpilled]

Bells aren't equal distribution either, like I said, equal is a straight line.
But whatever the slope you'd expect a curve that peaks in the middle and is symmetrical
This describes mesukurtic / leptokurtic / platykurtic curves too

no need to worry about specifics, english isn't my first language.