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Oh my, the mental gymnastics you're doing. Males and females are asked to rate eachother, males clearly rate females in a normal-distribution way, females highl
by raducu 9y ago
Oh my, the mental gymnastics you're doing. Males and females are asked to rate eachother, males clearly rate females in a normal-distribution way, females highly skew it in favor of the more attractive males.
What is your conclusion about the graph, besides "interesting"? What is fundamentally different about how men and women answer surveys?
- Lazare 9y ago> males clearly rate females in a normal-distribution way, females highly skew it in favor of the more attractive males. Yes. But males messaging females skew highly in favour of the more attractive females, while females messages males do so in a normal-distributed way. So when OP asks "Why does it appear that the vast majority of women prefer the same small group of men?" the answer is simple: It's actually the other way around. 2/3 of men (a "vast majority") are messaging 1/3 of women (a "small group"). Women do not exhibit this behaviour. Those are the facts we are presented with. Anything else is, as you put it, "mental gymnastics".
- nerfhammer 9y agoNot sure if it makes a difference but it's 2/3 of messages, not 2/3 of men.
- raducu 9y agoLet me enlighten you: females message less attractive males because females love validation and attention and lose nothing if they do so, not because they don't actually know who they really like. We live in a serial-monogamous society -- if the average individual wants a relationship he/she'll eventually have to settle for an average partner, regardless of who they fancy the most.