Are you a statistics guy?

For the record, I consider ratings important and don't want to see them go, but I also think the reviews are more important.

However, I do check the ratings first just because they are right there and it is quick and easy to do so.

If I am looking at a profile, there is already some reason I am doing so, and I will go on to the reviews as long as the rating show the person to be somewhat viable.  Even if they don't, I'll probably read the reviews just to see what the issues are for my own edification.

The appearance response ranked essentially equal with services offered in a dead heat for third place.   The Rating response (first place) includes both appearance and performance.  Further, I am not certain whether the appearance rating refers to the numerical rating or the appearance section in the provider information.  

If the purpose of the poll was to figure out whether the rating system is useful or could be improved - I would argue that the construction of the poll question was flawed.  It is interesting that the content that has to be clicked through to be read - ranked second.  Especially since the rating is on that same line....  In other words - 20% of respondents claim to have NOT checked the ratings BEFORE they checked the review - even though it's on the same line and sticks out like a sore thumb.  That's astounding - it is as if you asked people what the first thing they noticed on the dashboard of their car was and 20% said the oil pressure rather than the speedometer.

However, if the purpose of the poll was to determine how well the web page design works with respect to the designers goals - then I think it works quite well.  Whether the designers goals are useful to the user (me) is a completely different issue.  My take away from this poll is that the review grid (which includes the ratings) should be at the top of the web page - not that the rating system is meaningful to the typical user.

I think the appearance rating is absurd and should be dropped now that nearly every reviewed provider has a ton of pictures on the Internet.  I think that the performance rating needs to be modified to be more of an overall session experience rating - which would include appearance and presentation as an aesthetic component of the session experience.  Does this mean I think the rating system is useless - Not at all - but I think it is much less useful than it could be and it could be dramatically improved

and that is eliminating the obviously unattractive women with blurred pics. I only use the numbers to "exclude" and never as a reason "to" book.

IMO just because a lady has all 9's and 10's for appearance does NOT mean that I am going to find her even remotely attractive, much less DDG. OTOH I don't think I have ever found that a women with most of her scores in the 7 range to be what I consider hot.

So IMO high scores mean she "might" be hot, mediocre scores mean she is almost certainly NOT a hottie. So I guess I have to agree that the scores are not completely useless, just almost so. lol

Please note, I am only talking about appearance scores, performance scores are a different matter IMO.

Personally I chalk this up to the fact that most reviewers are either spineless and don't want to hurt the lady's feelings, or simply have no taste in women and give any woman who will get naked for him high scores whether she deserves them or not.

"This doesn't typically seem to go the opposite way though (and this is where subjectivity cums into play): just cuz a girl has average 9 or 10 and has more than 20+ reviews, doesn't mean she's really DDG to YOU."

Yep. I booked with a provider who's a 10/10, and is in the top 50 on TER's Top 100 National list. She was nice looking, and I can see where guys would find her DDG, but I didn't.  

Appearance is the very first criteria for me. If that's not there, I just don't see the point. I might as well just pay $200 for a B&G.

OVER-analyzing every godforesaken statistic and detail on here. There are TOO many flaws in this system to do such a thing. How about this, why don't you find someone you're attracted to, do a 'lil' research, contact her and if you like what you hear, ya book her and have a great time. See, easy as pie. What IS the damn problem?
You guys can be so ridiculously complicated in what is supposed to be a 'simple' world here. Just keep it simple gentlemen. Please? I thank you LOL.  

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Bwahaha! You believe TER polls! Did you believe the bbfs poll too?

I already voted 20 sonething times in this poll. I voted over 300 times in the BBFS poll.