You all know the one-to-ten scale for rating a person’s hotness. Seeing as my friends apparently have all invented named relationship theories, I’ll throw in The Binary Scale. With binary numbers, you have zero and one. If grading someone on The Binary Scale, you either like them or you don’t. This is helpful for two situations that I can think of (feel free to add more):
1. You’re contemplating hooking up with someone. Hot or not? This is usually not a decision you agonize over, particularly when drunk.
2. Blind dates. You never met ‘em before, and you never worked your way up from friendship to dating, so you usually know within the first few minutes whether or not you’re going to regret agreeing to this.
If a more detailed analysis is necessary, one can move on to the one-to-ten scale. Say you want to date a co-worker. They get a one on The Binary Scale because they’re hot, but then you need to factor in all the ugliness that can result from bringing your personal life to the office.
