[... See, Ford thinks about his roster and about the ghost types he knows and realizes he can't really argue this point? Ghosts are statistically more likely to be cuter. She's not wrong.]

I don't know if I would say that every Ghost-type is cuter than any other Pokémon, but I would agree that on average they tend toward the top. My Dhelmise, for instance -- when it found out I had named it after a famous ghost ship it suddenly became very serious about living up to that legacy. The legacy of a ship that never even existed in this reality! So sweet.

[This single paragraph should tell you everything you need to know about Stanford Pines and how he is defining 'cute' here.]