Inside the Numbers

Found this entertaining Q&A from a chat with ESPN's The Sports Guy. "Hollinger" is John Hollinger, a statistician-type that crunches #s for ESPN.com looking for trends. Personally, I would have a high % of inebriated iTunes purchases:

Q: Me and a few of my friends were watching "Fear Factor" and two girls who were well-endowed in the chest area. By the way, ladies you're only lying to yourselves if you say you don't size up other girls' chests, so don't act offended by this. So anyway, we had a bit of a debate over whose were better. One girl had bigger ones, but she was slightly heavier and hers were a little less perky. I was in the camp that preferred the smaller ones because of the perkiness and the flatter stomach of the girl. I was wondering if you could talk Hollinger into making a RER (rack efficiency rating) which would take into account size, perkiness, her height, etc., so any debate could easily be decided.
--Pat, Fall River, Mass.

SG: I'm going to devote the remainder of my summer to convincing John Hollinger to do this. By the way, Hollinger needs to expand his horizons because the whole efficiency rating gimmick could work for just about every aspect of life: Amount of alcohol somebody drank over the course of a night; number of quality hookups; money spent on a woman versus the actual "return" on the investment; percentage of drunken eBay, Amazon and iTunes purchases versus sober ones; quality of sex scenes during a Skinemax movie; ability of someone to continually get friends to buy them drinks over a prolonged period of time by using a variety of excuses like, "I forgot to hit an ATM. Can you cover me?" It's an endless list. And the various Vegas or wedding scenarios alone could give Hollinger a second career. I hope he branches out. You can only come up with so many ways to tout Chris Paul's virtues before you get bored.