The Kinsey scale – Determine how gay you are
The Kinsey scale attempts to describe a person’s sexual hsitory or episodes of their sexual activity at a given time. In other words, determine how gay you are
Alfred Kinsey was the first scientist to thoroughly examine sex and sexual behavior. Kinsey himself maintained many male lovers (many of whom were his graduate students). One biographer claims that Kinsey enjoyed group sex, S&M, and encouraged his staff to engage in group sex.
His wife, Clara, who had sex with other men, remained his life partner as they explored why people didn’t always tell the truth about their sexual behavior. To address this reality, Kinsey and Clara developed a scale that addressed the different degrees of one’s sexuality.
One of Dr. Kinsey’s most well known theories is the “Heterosexual/ Homosexual Rating Scale,” which rates a person’s homosexuality or heterosexuality on a 7-point continuum. (Link)
The Bortle Dark-Sky Scale
The Bortle Dark-Sky Scale is a nine-level numeric scale that measures the night sky’s and stars’ brightness (naked-eye and stellar limiting magnitude) of a particular location. It quantifies the astronomical observability of celestial objects and the interference caused by light pollution and skyglow. John E. Bortle created the scale and published it in the February 2001 edition of Sky & Telescope magazine to help amateur astronomers
compare the darkness of observing sites. The scale ranges from Class 1, the darkest skies available on Earth, through Class 9, inner-city skies. (Link)
Bristol Stool Scale – Classify the form of human faeces
The Bristol Stool Scale or Bristol Stool Chart is a medical aid designed to classify the form of human faeces into seven categories. Sometimes referred to in the UK as the “Meyers Scale”, it was developed by Heaton at the University of Bristol and was first published in the Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology in 1997.
The form of the stool depends on the time it spends in the colon. The seven types of stool are:
Type 1: Separate hard lumps, like nuts (hard to pass)
Type 2: Sausage-shaped, but lumpy
Type 3: Like a sausage but with cracks on its surface
Type 4: Like a sausage or snake, smooth and soft
Type 5: Soft blobs with clear cut edges (passed easily)
Type 6: Fluffy pieces with ragged edges, a mushy stool
Type 7: Watery, no solid pieces. Entirely liquid. (Link)
Type 1: Separate hard lumps, like nuts (hard to pass)
Type 2: Sausage-shaped, but lumpy
Type 3: Like a sausage but with cracks on its surface
Type 4: Like a sausage or snake, smooth and soft
Type 5: Soft blobs with clear cut edges (passed easily)
Type 6: Fluffy pieces with ragged edges, a mushy stool
Type 7: Watery, no solid pieces. Entirely liquid. (Link)
Hamilton/Norwood Scale
Did you know that male pattern baldness has it’s own measurement scale? It’s true. The Hamilton-Norwood Scale is used to measure the degree of hair loss.The higher the number, the more advanced the loss.This measurement scale was first introduced by Dr. James Hamilton in the 1950s and later revised and updated by Dr. O’Tar Norwood in the 1970s. (Link)
The Hynek Scale
At the bottom of each UFO Sighting Report in the CUFON database you will see a rating in the form S#/P#. This represents ParaNet’s initial Hynek Rating of the value of the case.
J. Allen Hynek, introduced the first three kinds of encounters; more sub-types of close encounters were later added by others, but these additional categories are not universally accepted by UFO researchers, mainly because they depart from the scientific rigor that Hynek aimed to bring to ufology.
Hynek’s scale achieved cachet with the general public when it informed elements of the 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which is named after the third level of the scale. Posters for the film recited the three levels of the scale, and Hynek himself makes a cameo appearance near the end of the film. The Fourth level of the scale, not on Hynek’s original version, in turn inspired the 2009 film The Fourth Kind.
First: A sighting of one or more unidentified flying objects:
Second: An observation of a UFO, and associated physical effects from the UFO, including: crop circles and interference with engines or TV or radio reception.
Third:An observation of what Hynek termed “animate beings” observed in association with a UFO sighting. Hynek deliberately chose the somewhat vague term “animate beings” to describe beings associated with UFOs without making any unfounded assumptions regarding the beings’ origins or nature. Hynek did not necessarily regard these beings as “extraterrestrials” or “aliens.” Additionally, Hynek further expressed discomfort with such reports, but felt a scientific obligation to include them, at the very least because they represented a sizable minority of claimed UFO
Fourth :A human is abducted by a UFO or its occupants. This type was not included in Hynek’s original close encounters scale.
Fifth: Named by Steven M. Greer’s CSETI group, these purported encounters are joint, bilateral contact events produced through the conscious, voluntary and proactive human-initiated or cooperative communication with extraterrestrial intelligence. This is very similar to some “contactees” of the 1950s who claimed regular communication with benevolent aliens.
Sixth: On Michael Naisbitt’s website, a sixth proposed CE scenario is described as UFO incidents that cause direct injury or death.This category was not included in Hynek’s scale, and is furthermore redundant: a CE2 in Hynek’s scale specifically included UFO encounters that leave direct physical evidence of any kind.
Seventh :The Black Vault Encyclopedia Project proposes a Close Encounter of the Seventh Kind as mating between a human being and extraterrestrial that produces a human-alien hybridisation, usually called a Star Child. (Link)
Torino Scale
The Torino Scale is designed to communicate to the public the risk associated with a future Earth approach by an asteroid or comet. This scale, which has integer values from 0 to 10, takes into consideration the predicted impact energy of the event as well as its likelihood of actually happening (i.e., the event’s impact probability).
The Palermo Technical Impact Hazard Scale is a similar, but more complex scale.
A 0 indicates an object has a negligibly small chance of collision with the Earth, compared with the usual “background noise” of collision events, or is too small to penetrate the Earth’s atmosphere intact.
A 10 indicates that a collision is certain, and the impacting object is large enough to precipitate a global disaster.
1- A routine discovery in which a pass near the Earth is predicted that poses no unusual level of danger.
2- A discovery, which may become routine with expanded searches, of an object making a somewhat close but not highly unusual pass near the Earth.
3- A 1% or greater chance of collision capable of localized destruction. Most likely, new telescopic observations will lead to re-assignment to Level 0.
4- A 1% or greater chance of collision capable of regional devastation.
5- Still uncertain threat of regional devastation. Critical attention by astronomers is needed to determine conclusively whether a collision will occur.
6- A close encounter by a large object posing a serious but still uncertain threat of a global catastrophe.
7- A very close encounter by a large object, which if occurring this century, poses an unprecedented but still uncertain threat of a global catastrophe.
8- A collision is certain, capable of causing localized destruction for an impact over land or possibly a tsunami if close offshore. Such events occur on average between once per 50 years and once per several thousand years.
9- A collision is certain, capable of causing unprecedented regional devastation for a land impact or the threat of a major tsunami for an ocean impact. Such events occur on average between once per 10,000 years and once per 100,000 years.
10- A collision is certain, capable of causing global climatic catastrophe that may threaten the future of civilization as we know it, whether impacting land or ocean. Such events occur on average once per 100,000 years, or less often
Ulmer Scale
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