The phenomena that occurs when a male engineer is forced to look at below average women for extended periods of time. The regular scale that is applied to women is generally multiplied by .7 to receive their actual rating.

Adj. Something that is expected to have a long lifespan by virtue of having existed for a long time, based on the lindy effect, named for the New York restaurant Lindy's, coined by Albert Goldman and popularized by Nassim Taleb.