The math behind low riding pants (how cool is it?)

Oct 10, 2009

In this post we learn all about the math behind low riding pants and how cool it really is.

I decided to do a study just to see what the relationship was. I interviewed 13,532 people and showed them each 6 pictures of people wearing low riding pants. I then asked them to select a "COOLNESS FACTOR" for each picture.
The 'coolness factor' works as follows:
0 = super dorky
1 = dorky
2 = average
3 = above average
4 = cool
5 = super cool!
After gathering all of my results and putting it into this complex mathematical program and calculating means and standard deviations and something to do with chi, I found the following results:

pants.jpg
The results were amazing! I conclude that:
  • the higher the pants, the more dorky you are
  • pants at waistline level means the person is average
  • pants that are super low make you super cool
By the way, I paid the test group people in skittles, they really love skittles for some reason. Afterwards, I also decided to show the test group some pictures of myself with no pants on to see if they would rated it super duper cool. This would fit the linear model that you can see in the picture above. However, the reaction was pretty bad and most of them threw skittles at me, thus I don't have any data for those pictures.


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