"Leslie"
 

Oh boy.  If my theory that Hot or Not voters reward blonde hair and low cut shirts over actual good looks needed a prime example, this is it.  I do not see, under any logical arrangement of the scale, how she is an 8.6.  Even if you consider 9+ to be top 10% and 8+ to be top 20% (which I don’t) you cannot possibly tell me this girl is in the top 14% of all girls on the planet Earth.  Simply ridiculous.

 Her score relative to all the women from 18-45 in the first world is 4.5.  She is just not in the top half, sorry.  Her facial bone structure is awful, but clearly her worst feature is her giant, protruding teeth.  Closely following that is her hair, which looks stringy and unkempt.  Granted this picture might be from a rave or a club, but we have to assume that the picture people post of themselves on internet beauty contests is the best picture they have.  So we conjecture she is below average, but how far?  I would really hesitate to put her below 4, since that is the realm where your problems cease to solvable with exercise or surgery.  None of her problems are incurable: a gym membership, trip to the hair salon and a stop by the dentist and she could be well above a 5.  So I think a score of 4.5 is fair in this case.

 How does she stack up against the average college girl in a college town?  Not well.  She is pale, has bad hair, bad teeth and is out of shape, even flabby.  To be considered average among girls her age she would have to be in average shape and have average facial features, which she does not possess.  Still, under a 4 seems pretty unfair, but a 4.5 is being unfair to her demographic.  I think a 4.33 is a fair, albeit slightly generous score.

 Relative to the rater, my least favorite category.  I have to give her a 4.  I’ll keep it short by saying that I think I am better looking than her, being especially better in the areas she is especially lacking.

So her composite score, after the factors are given their weight, is 4.34.  This indicates she is below average with minor, correctable flaws.  While it would be unfair to label her “ugly” it would probably be insulting to normal girls to label her “average.”  Lest you think I’m being harsh and that she is easily fixable and could easily solve her problems let me remind you that being on a tightrope you can fall either direction.  She could easily go to the gym and the dentist and improve, but she could also eat cookies and get fatter.  More importantly, this isn’t a rating based on potential, it’s a rating based on the here and now.