Two University of Chicago students — male students — decided “in true U of C fashion,” to “get statistics” supporting the famous U of C t-shirt slogan that “the squirrels are cuter than the girls.”
From Collegecuteness.com findings correlate with shirt slogan:
To evaluate the claim that Chicago girls are less attractive than others, he and Scimeca turned to the internet. They chose 10 colleges located across the country, from small, liberal arts schools to massive Big 10 universities. Capitalizing on the popularity of TheFacebook.com, they randomly selected 35 female students from each school’s freshmen class and took the picture from their profile.With these pictures in hand, they used another popular website to measure the girls’ looks. Each photo was posted on HotOrNot.com, where leering strangers can rank subjects on a scale ranging from 10 (hot) to 1 (not). After receiving 300 votes, each of the 350 total pictures was removed and the average score for each girl calculated.