If you collected a random group of people you would expect them to cluster around average traits.
Assuming that average is not overweight enough to be "fat," you would expect most groups of girls to not be fat as an aggregate.
Whenever you have a group that significantly deviates from the norm, there is something going on. The larger the deviation the more it makes you wonder. The larger the deviation the more consequences that there are, both good and bad.
If you have a group with a collective GPA of 4.0, you know that people have been selecting for GPA or else some odd social drift has occurred thats resulted in that configuration.
However, after a while that can become self selecting. People with a very high GPA may be attracted to that group out of comfort and people with a lower GPA might feel like the group would be a bad fit for them.
So even though a 4.0 GPA is considered desirable trait, it could actually limit the group's size, because it doesn't reflect the population enough.
The same thing is going to happen if the percentage of girls in the chapter that are overweight enough to be seen as overweight start be out of proportion to the population the chapter is attempting to recruit from.
People are drawn to similarity.
Thats just the way it is.
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Originally Posted by AlphaGamUGAAlum
If the appearance of the current sisters is the only reason 70 won't join, it's hard to accept that the 70 would be more exceptional, I suspect.
We all want fun, social chapters (into which attractiveness figures; let's be honest), but we don't want a sisterhood based only on physical attractiveness.
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