Pretty girls and graphs

I know what you are all thinking: which state has the most beautiful college-aged women? A question for the ages to be sure, one that if I ask again in a few years would probably end with me in jail.  Total Frat Move has been faithfully performing the Lord’s work and compiling a database answering that very question.
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TFM’s ‘Instagram Babe of the Day’ showcases one Instagram account featuring a woman wearing clothes that her father must...just...not know about.  Using the tools at Kimono Labs I assembled a list of 299 IBoDs and sorted them by state.  Here are the results in a fraternity-approved-salmon colored map:

Florida is the winner and it is not even close at 67 ‘Babes’ of the 299, or 22%.  California is the next closest at 49 followed by Arizona at 38, Texas at 21 and then Virginia and New York with 8 and 7 respectively.   In fact together the top 3 states beat out the bottom 48 (including DC) combined.  The entire country of Australia had 1 which puts it ahead of the six states with zero.   America’s friendly neighbor to the North, Canada, came in at 4 beating out 34 states.
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Clearly not all states are equally gifted.  Warmer states seem to be dominating and the upper portion of the Midwest is just a deserted wasteland. But Wyoming only has 6 people per square mile. I didn’t expect there to be bronze bombshells patrolling the streets of Cheyenne.  But even adjusting for the number of female college students per state does not even the playing field.  Here is a graph of the total number of IBoDs plotted against female college students by state (data are in thousands, from 2008; available at the US Census. Thanks Obama).

Florida and Arizona are really just doing a great job.  Keep it up gals. Texas and especially New York are under-performing their potential.  Both have fewer TFM ‘Babes’ than would be expected based on their student population.  Hawaii, with its low student population, actually has the highest rate of IBoDs. Around 1 in every 8500 college girls is on TFM.  Florida’s rate is the only close competition at 1:9000 followed by a distant Arizona.
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Babes of the Day is only one metric though.  Is it really accurate in predicting the most beautiful states?  I looked up some other rankings and chose two (the first two that came up on Google). The first was from the internet’s bastion of journalism, Buzzfeed, and the other was from Comcast Xfinity (even they have lists?). Both used a combination of arbitrary numbers to reach their equally dubious conclusions about the most attractive states.  Here are the top 5 for each in descending order.  (I switched back to using total number of IBoDs for this one because it gives a better list. Rigor is not the goal of this analysis)

No surprise, California shows up on each list.  We also see Florida and Virginia show up on one of the other lists. The other two lists have Hawaii which would have been there if we had taken into account total number of college girls.  So overall 3 of our top 5 ended up on the other lists which gives us a 60%. Plus 10% extra credit for Hawaii almost being on there gives us 70%. And C’s get degrees.
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There is no way to differentiate between correlation and causation. Either warm weather attracts beautiful women, makes women beautiful or coerces them to send their names to [email protected]. Who cares though? I’m not complaining.