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> the top 80% of women matching with top 20% of men That's simply not true. An actual scientific study [1] shows people match with people 25% more desirable th
by throwawayasdfgh 8y ago
> the top 80% of women matching with top 20% of men
That's simply not true. An actual scientific study [1] shows people match with people 25% more desirable than them on average, not the absolute top 20%. Interestingly, that 25% figure is true for both men and women.
[1] http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/8/eaap9815 http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/8/eaap9815
- username90 8y agoIn that study 18% of men and 2% of women had received no messages. Also the most desirable men had similar response rate as the least desirable women according to their desirability metric.
- stared 8y agoBased on OKC data, "women rate an incredible 80% of guys as worse-looking than medium" From "Your Looks and Your Inbox - How men and women perceive attractiveness" http://archive.is/489UV http://archive.is/489UV
- rococode 8y agoI must still be jetlagged or something, because I skimmed the article but still don't understand - how can the 25% figure be true for both men and women? Surely if one gender is, on average, matching with people more deseriable then the other gender that's being matched to them must be matching with people less desirable?
- throwawayasdfgh 8y ago"The curves are remarkably consistent across all four cities, with men and women on average sending messages to potential partners who are 26 and 23% further up the rankings than themselves, respectively." Maybe 'matching' was not the correct word, sorry.
- dorchadas 8y agoThat comes across completely differently than what you originally claimed. They're just messaging people that are more desirable, likely hoping they luck out. Not matching with those people.
- fjlmgmwkqh 8y agoYou need to match in order to message (on Tinder at least).