The Editorial Board announces that JQF has changed its title to "Bimonthly Journal of Quantitative Fudge" for the time being, and further changes shall also be expected.

The board denies the rumor that the journal is lack of contributions. In fact, Frey suggests that there will be a zidane headbutt issue and a toilet paper issue. However, the board puts priority on an academic research about investment and stock returns. Frey is also occupied by a personal quest. "We would rather do nothing than write anything ordinary." says Frey.

S&P and Moody's ratings on BJQF remain unchanged following the title change.

 

The Journal of Quantitative Fudge is calling for papers for a special issue devoted to football (soccer) statistics. JQF seeks papers which will contribute to the knowledge on current developments in this area. As the World Cup becomes of greater interest to international fans, the issues of football are becoming of ever-growing importance.

 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
* Comprehensive Measures of Team Performances
* Determinant Statistics of Goals, eg, relationship between shots and goals
* Ball Possession as a Stochastic Process

 

Papers should be submitted via email by the end of the tournament to the address below. Authors may also discuss potential submissions at any time. An accelerated review process will be undertaken to ensure an August publication date.

 

JQF Editor Board
donotreply@163.com

SMV, a Measure of Charm

 

by Frey Wang

accepted Jun, 2006

JQF Classification: Models

 

Abstract

Charm is well valued in our society. This paper reviews previous measures of charm and their failures, and provides a quantitative measure, Sexual Market Value, for further research.

Keywords: Charm, SMV

 

I. Introduction

Charm is defined as a trait that fascinates, allures, or delights. In this paper, I extend it to mean both physical and mental grace or attraction.

It is clear through research studies, published articles and treatises, opinion polls, and just plain old real life that charm is extremely well valued in our society[1]. However, there is no quantitative measure of charm for statistical purposes.

In this paper, I propose a new feasible proxy, the Sexual Market Value, as the measure of charm. The remainder of the paper is organized as follows. Section II briefly reviews related slangs; Section III develops the main idea of the paper. Finally Section IV gives suggestions for future work.

 

II. Review of Literature

There is an everyday scaling system using a ten-point scale on which TEN is the highest and ZERO is the lowest. this scale can measure anything, but is applied intensively to measure the hotness of individuals. Thus, "She is a TEN" means "she" has the total body package[2].

This scale can be interpreted as a utility function. Although this is a quantitative measure, I find it way too subjective. The number can be biased even after taking average of collective measures. Moreover, according to the public choice theory, people are motivated to understate their preferences.

Yet an alternative measure, the SMV, emerges early this year. SMV is an acronym for Sexual Market Value[Ms Lisa,2006], "When a person is seen in public with an attractive and charming partner, their SMV goes up, meaning they become more attractive to other potential partners"[3].

In this measure, true preferences are "revealed" by them voting with thier feet. It is interesting but qualitative. In the next section, I will extend it to a quantitative one.

 

III. Design of Measure

The definition of SMV can be interpreted as follow:

dSMV=f(SMV_P),

whereas dSMV refers to the amount "their SMV goes up", and SMV_P denotes Charm of the partner, where "with an attractive and charming partner" would give bonus.

To simplify the measure, I also assume that:

f(SMV)=NSMV

whereas NSMV is the Net SMV by deducting the looping component. That is, when A is with B, SMVA goes up by the NSMV of B, whereas the NSMV of B remain unchanged even SMVB goes up as B is with A. Else, the calculation would be trapped in a loop, as SMVA and SMVB are functions of each other.

Also we define:

SMV₀=c=1

whereas SMV₀ is the SMV of someone who has never been "seen in public with" a partner.

Solve the differential function, I obtain:

SMV=SUM(NSMV_P)

The assumption "seen with sb" can also be extended, for example, to "wooed by sb", for different uses. Furthermore, when two engage in a relationship, thier SBV, sexual book value might be defined as lower of the SMVs. However, whether "have a thing for sb" is a reasonable extent remains an open question, whose identification will be addressed in more advanced research.

 

IV. Directions for Future Studies

So far I have developed a family of quantitative measures of charm, and linked them to those financial concepts of market and book value. Then a book to market ratio may proxy for the risk of breaking up, while mark to market efforts could monitor this potential.

 

Acknowledgements
I would like to thank Winnie for the “Korean wooer” story which brought up the idea

 

References

[1]Levine, Michael: Charm is Good Business

[2]Brown, Kim, et al: Definition of TEN

[3]Ms. Lisa: Definition of SMV, skip the Suck M. V. part...

 

Noticed that my old man had been taught the skill of surfing at the cost of my free speech, I decided to alter to proper language as a cover. Proper language here does not only mean english but also slang and academic language.
On the other hand, we have plagiarized plenty of papers only to find them poorly documented. Most of them do not credit the source of data, use erroneous econometrics, or make judgements that can not be derived from their reasoning. Surprisingly, they appear on core journals as well.
Therefore, I come up with the idea of starting my very own journal. I hope it would be kind of South Parkish, and could really make fun of those make-up-the-number journals :P

 

 

"Model the World!"
JQF only accepts online submission at donotreply@163.com [see footnote 1]
JQF encourages original ideas on every topic. I am especially interested in papers using quantitative models to explain everyday trivia. Although JQF has no restrictions, short papers with good story telling is preferred. You can expect several samples published here in a few days.
Authors should acknowledge that submissions are voluntary and no remuneration would be expected. There is also no submission fee since I am unable to collect it :P

 

[1]the "do not reply" idea comes from a Human Resource Department. Apperently, it means your job application is handled by some stupid machines and any complaining reply would be ignored.