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The fact that women like height and money is uncontroversial (sorry dude). I wouldn't believe any exact numbers about how much of one converts to how much of th
by hugh3 16y ago
The fact that women like height and money is uncontroversial (sorry dude). I wouldn't believe any exact numbers about how much of one converts to how much of the other.
It could be true in this case though due to the nonlinear utility of money. This guy's a professor of computer science at Duke so he's presumably making good money, maybe $150K? The difference between making $150K and $190K is pretty unimportant, like an extra inch in height, whereas the difference between making $40K and $80K is important, like an extra (I dunno) five inches in height.
For this particular guy, he could probably increase his attractiveness by an equal amount by spending fifty bucks on a decent haircut.
- markbao 16y agoHahaha. Oh, yes, I'm aware of that, but the amount he mentioned was strange. But yeah, perhaps he was using a nonlinear comparison as you said, which would make more sense.
- clay 16y agoThis link says 1 inch = $30000. http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2010/02/height-matters-income-vs-height-trade.html http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2010/02/height-matters-income-vs...
- hugh3 16y agoHmph, well the study is by Dan Airely, so he's just citing himself. Now I want to plot a graph: "Number of papers written about the effect of height on male attractiveness" vs "height of author"
- aspiringsensei 16y agoThis is an excellent reason why all published works should include a diverse collection of very ephemeral metadata.
- billmcneale 16y ago> This link says 1 inch = $30000. Good to know. Do you have a similar number for tallness?
- jboydyhacker 16y agoWell it says at around 5'9 an inch is worth 30K. Two larger questions arise out of the whole topic? 1. Is the relationship linear? i.e. at 6 vs 5'8, is it 30K per inch, or does the price of the woman start to drop based on your height? 2. If a women's interest is dictated in $$$, what does that imply? Why do men tolerate women who act like this? Why do we raise our daughters to think like this?
- kadavy 16y agoWomen say they want money, which one study found to be true, only to find no correlation between that preference and the men they actually ended up dating: http://www.onlinedatingmatchmaker.com/lie-online-dating-profile/ http://www.onlinedatingmatchmaker.com/lie-online-dating-prof...
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