For [2], the analysis is a bit off. For the mix/max age settings, there's not all that much difference between men and women for max age - for example a 30yo ha

For [2], the analysis is a bit off. For the mix/max age settings, there's not all that much difference between men and women for max age - for example a 30yo has a max partner age of 36 regardless of gender, and a 45yo has a max partner age of 50 regardless of gender. The difference in settings is in the min setting - and neither men nor women have the same range below as above (men quite a lot more, women a moderate amount less). Men never have an equal settings range above and below, and women don't hit an equal settings range until their 40s. When it comes to actual messaging activity, both graphs show a 'belly' of preferring to message younger partners (except near the origin); it's just that the men's one is considerably more pronounced. Both genders are sending a lot of messages to people younger than their own minimum settings, too. In general I liked the OKC data articles, but this particular one always seemed to me like they were forcing a story onto the data.