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okcupid published some nice research into this, iirc women consider ~80% males to be "below average". So female standards are seriously skewed towards a small n
by kofejnik 9y ago
okcupid published some nice research into this, iirc women consider ~80% males to be "below average". So female standards are seriously skewed towards a small number of super-alphas, who, given a totally free market, would get all the dates
- magduf 9y agoYeah, but what about the flip side? Not all women are desirable to men: fat, unattractive, already have kids, etc. There's a lot of women who just never get a date, because their photos aren't very attractive and men want pretty women (I'm a man and I'll admit this readily: if a woman is a little overweight that's an automatic disqualifier for me).
- ddorian43 9y agoAre you overweight yourself at all ?
- kofejnik 9y agoIt's nice that you can afford to be picky, but Okcupid talked about this as well, iirc _any_ woman short of actual physical deformity will get plenty of suitors. Compare this to about 50% of men who will not get any at all. In pre-historic times, only 40% of males procreated (again, iirc) So the flip side seems quite small.
- Nav_Panel 9y agoHere's the published article: https://theblog.okcupid.com/your-looks-and-your-inbox-8715c0f1561e https://theblog.okcupid.com/your-looks-and-your-inbox-8715c0... Basically, men rate women more along a bell curve, but mostly message the upper end of attractiveness, whereas women rate most men as ugly and then reply anyway.
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 9y agopretty == underdeveloped. Ignore this phenomenon to your own peril.
- gawkface 9y agoExcept some guys do know how to "look" at girls rather than ogle
- magduf 8y agoWhat's this supposed to mean? You think only ugly women are developed or something? This doesn't even make sense.
- Double_a_92 8y agoMaybe he meant that if someone is pretty, they don't really need to have other good skills. Plus their character might spoil, since people like them anyway just based on looks...