How would you rate your naked body on a scale of one to ten?
10!My body is great, and its greatness has very little to do with clothes. Here are 10 reasons:It can climb up and down stairs without using an elevator.When it determines I need more oxygen for my muscles after climbing stairs, it is able to adjust the heaviness of my breathing to compensate.It can determine, like a thermostat, how warm it has gotten. If I get overly warm from climbing stairs, it has an automatic cooling system in the form of sweat glands.It can monitor the current status of my musculature, and if it detects that they are being stressed from climbing too many stairs, it sends useful signals to my brain in the form of pain so that I will slow down and allow them to recover.It can automatically continue my previous activity even when my conscious thoughts have moved on to something else. For example, if I am on the stairs and then take a phone call, my body can continue walking without intervention.It automatically stores excess food calories for me from one day to use the next time I need to climb stairs.It monitors overall energy levels to determine whether I have climbed too many stairs, and tells itself to go into shutdown mode for 8 hours.It automatically hardens parts of itself that get a lot of contact. For example, it makes the bottom of my feet rougher so that they are less damaged from constant stair climbing.It automatically detects the relationship of itself to the source of gravity, and adjusts itself so that I will not fall down the stairs.It automatically repairs itself when I fall down the stairs.And it does all of that without any clothes at all!
Girlfriend asked me to rate her on a scale of one to ten...?
But I said something like "really I don't rate people like that because my belief is that looks don't matter since you wouldn't have approached the person if you didn't find them attractive in the first place." Thinking back this answer seems like dodging and may not have been the way to go. Still I feel like if you say 10 most girls would know you're bullshitting since 10 by definition is an impossible ideal. How is the best way to reapproach this?
On a scale of one to ten, how painful are braces?
Spacers aren't a big deal at all. You mouth will be a little bit tender for a day or two but not that bad. . . Braces- the toughest part is waiting for your lips to get used to the metal in your mouth. For the first few days your lips will be sore, and you may possibly get some cuts in your mouth. Eventually your skin gets tougher and you will be used to them. As far as pain goes, your mouth will feel sore for a few days, and when you go in to get them tightened each month, it will be the same way. On the bright side, when you feel sore, you know your teeth are becoming straighter. I do recommend putting on chap stick frequently a few days prior to going in to get braces, and the day of. Your mouth is kept open for quite a while and if your lips are dry, they could crack, due to the absence of saliva. Overall, braces aren't that bad. I dreaded getting them. I actually threw a huge fit about it (embarrassing, yes), but it turned out to be the best thing I ever did. I love my smile now, and I get compliments all the time. Its totally worth it. Good luck to ya!! Oh! One more thing! The glue they use to put the braces on does not taste good at all... once you are done you will have that taste in your mouth. Have whoever takes you to the orthodontist have something ready for you when you get out, like a latte, hot chocolate, chai tea, or something to drink that you like the taste of. Preferably warm, but not hot, and not really cold either. My mom had a Chai tea for me and the instant the drink hit my tongue the bad taste of the glue was gone. It was a huge relief.
Do men really rate all women on a scale of 1-10? Instead of assuming most men do this, I’d thought I’d ask the men on here.
Oh i absolutely do!I am a heterosexual male and have strong male instincts, instincts that i have developed over time. I can quickly scan a crowd and separate the more attractive and interesting looking females from the rest.Then i single out women and if i am interested in one of them (or not) i tend to rate them out of several parameters. Sometimes i rate them out of 10, I have a very strong sense of what is attractive and what isn't. I rate women according to several traits as well. Some of them are :*Breasts - Perky, saggy, non existent, big, small, medium, toned, etc.*Skin tone :Olive, pale white, white, black, brown, yellow, wheatish, etc.*Body fat and proportion.*Size of the bum.*Colour of the eye*The type of Eye :Kind eyes, violent eyes, indifferent eyes, you get the jist.*Other qualities like kindness, compassion, intelligence, blah blah.*Voice : I am specifically attracted to British, Russian, Japanese and French speaking women. I have a special place for Central asian, middle eastern, native american women in my heart. They are gorgeousI am attracted to all types of ethnicities and body types but i do have this scale of attractiveness.I have never had any luck with women myself and now i am transitioning into a bit of a closeted misogynist. (i don’t want to be one, i don’t blame anyone). Whatever i wrote above is based on my preconceived notion that i have a strong male instinct and i know what is attractive and what isn't.
On a scale 1-10, please rate these SCARY movies if they are scary or not?
1- Not scary at all! 5- Worth watching.. 10- Super SCARY! 1. Carrie 2. Jeepers creepers 3. Halloween (series) 4. Misery 5. Night of the living dead 6. An american crime 7. Friday the 13th 8. The others 9. Orphan (I know, it didnt come out yet but it looks scary O.O) 10. The Texas chainsaw massacre 11. Silent Hill 12. Child's play 13. The exorsist 14. An american haunting 15. It 16. Other (You chose!)
On a scale of one to ten, what's your favourite colour in the alphabet?
That is a question really tricky to answer, you know? But the answer for me probably is two. Why, you ask?Indeed my alphabet has colors. I’m synesthetic. I unwillingly associate letters and numbers with certain colors. Names and (foreign) words have colors for me, the colors that I automatically associate with their first letters. My A is red, so my name, André, is red, too.I like red, but of the first 10 letters of the alphabet, J has the nicest color, I really like it, as it’s orange. Orange is a friendly, warm, happy color. It reminds me of summer evenings, mandarines, orange juice. Most of the walls in my home in Leipzig are light orange, and the furniture is in a shade of beige that borders closely on orange. Lots of people starting with J are really cool and lovely folks, like Jana, Julia, Josephine, Jessica, Jonas, Ja Seng, Jens…But you asked for a scale from one to ten. Well, which number closely corresponds to orange then? I’d say, the number two does. Not the word “two”, though, which would be black, but the actual digit 2, which for me is a darker, slightly orange shade of yellow.So, in short: I nominate two, because the digit 2 has a similarly nice color as the letter J in my alphabet, namely orange. :)
Why do doctors ask patients to rate their pain on a scale of one to ten? How could they possibly do that in any meaningful way?
I think my understanding of why we ask is a combination of factors.First, because there are little checkboxes required by many organizations for “patient satisfaction” and also for legal reasons (so doctors can’t be sued for failure to treat a patient’s pain).Second, because we try to trend pain levels over time, the way we do with lab values. This is inevitably a fiction, but the intention is to gain insight into the patient’s progress. An analogy might be examination of food “ratings” on yelp. Is there really a way to quantify whether a particular moroccan dish was a 6/10 or a 7/10. Can you compare that to the mexican food that was an 8/10?It’s obviously somewhat arbitrary, and yet it can have meaning. You could have a “really bad” headache and a “really bad” stomachache, but if I ask for a pain scale, you might say the head is a 7 and the belly is a 9. That is meaningful, even if it’s arbitrary.But the most important reason is because asking for numbers forces people to be specific, and forcing them to be specific requires them to pause and think. If a patient is telling me it “hurts really bad”, I can just accept that, or I can ask for specifics - “how bad? on a scale from 1–10”. The actual answer is less meaningful than the benefit of getting the patient to pause and consider. The thoughtfulness that is required to answer the question promotes a more useful discussion. Similarly, I try to ask “how long has this been going on?”, and “if the pain is on and off, how many times per day does it come on?” … these are all numerical answers (though there are other forms of specificity, like “point with one finger at the place where it hurts the most”), but the benefit of specificity is that it limits hysterical answers, and it provides both the patient and the doctor with focus and an impetus to think and answer carefully.It is part of the art of the patient interview, and it can be remarkably effective in facilitating diagnosis and assessing progress, even if it’s indirect, arbitrary, and totally non-representative of the reality of your pain.
Just recently heard this joke. On a scale of one to ten, how funny would you rate it?
A Fourth-grade teacher wanted her students to have a brief exposure to politics, etc. "Class, she asked. "If you had been allowed to vote last election, raise your hand if you would have voted for our present Governor? Out of the class of 19 students, 18 hands flew up instantly. The teacher noticed that sure enough, Little Johnny was the one with no hand in sight. "Why, little Johnny, I wonder why you haven't raised your hand like the rest of the class?" the teacher queried. "Well," little Johnny answered, "I would have instead voted for whom my parents did since they are both very successful at their jobs, are extremely religious by thanking God every day for all He does for them, are active in the community always trying to help less fortunate people, and most of all they are great parents by being supportive, showing an interest in all that we do, making sure we all sit down to dinner together every night to keep abreast of where and when we are -- which makes me and my brothers and sisters secure and happy because of the obvious love and pride our parents have for us.' The teacher chided little Johnny by saying: "I am surprised, little Johnny, that you would rely on your parents' decisions and not your own. Afterall, what if your mother was an idiot and your father was retarded?" A big grin spread across little Johnny's face as he answered his teacher's question: "If that was true, then I would have raised my hand five minutes ago with the rest of the class !!"
When psychologists ask you to rate how you feel on a scale from 1-10 what are they trying to find out? Is it a ‘trick question’?
Not a trick question. We mean it, just as it is said.When we ask you to rate something 1–10, we are using what is called a SOD scale, which stands for “subjective units of distress.” Subjective means that it is your opinion ( that it is not a cut and dried objective rating).The reason we use that is that it gives us an easy way to monitor your level of anxiety, panic, depression, anger, or pain.No one can know what anxiety feels like in your body, but if your SOD starts at an 8 or 9, and after treatment or change in situation goes to 5 or 2 (as one example), we can know that the treatment is having some benefit.Also, the SOD helps us teach patients that their symptoms wax and wane, and are not always the same. For example, sometimes people on pain medications will over use them saying that they have pain. When we can draw attention to the times when their pain is rising (eg, a 5 and going up) we can help them use their medications more effectively, as well as help them see the times if day when their pain is manageable without it.This is also true for people who have waxing and waning suicidal thoughts or panic attacks. SOD allows you to see nuances in your symptoms, and realize you have times that things are not dire. That can be important.We also use SOD scores just to document severity from a patient point of view.No trick. You’re just giving us your own perceptions in a useful data point.