This is based on dating websites where people need to make a quick decision based on a relatively limited set of information. I don't know how much this skews t

This is based on dating websites where people need to make a quick decision based on a relatively limited set of information. I don't know how much this skews the data but it wouldn't surprise me that on a dating website, people make more decisions based on superficial data (earnings, look) than in real life. That said, in real life, there's not necessarily a lot of social mixity so people will tend to meet people who earn about the same as they do. Slightly out of topic, funnily enough when I used such a website, I lowballed my earnings because I didn't want to meet women for whom that was an important factor.