In case you needed to see some data.

You know how everyone (including your mom and your Dove chocolate wrapper and the DJ for the morning show on the Christian radio station) is always telling you to "just be yourself?" Well, add one more group to that list: economists.

After running some regressions on data from an online dating site, the authors found that women who were polarizing (so, some men thought they were a "10," while others didn't find them attractive at all) were more likely to get attention than people who were considered generically "cute" across the board.

I'll spare you the algebra and just encourage everyone who sees this to take one giant, collective sigh of relief. Particularity is sexy.

Cue Buechner:

"Maybe nothing is more important than that we keep track, you and I, of these stories of who we are and where we have come from and the people we have met along the way because it is precisely through these stories in all their particularity, as I have long believed and often said, that God makes himself known to each of us most powerfully and personally. If this is true, it means that to lose track of our stories is to be profoundly impoverished not only humanly but also spiritually." (from Telling Secrets)