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I don't have the numbers on hand, but it's likely even more drastic. The original blog post has long since been deleting (https://theblog.okcupid.com/your-look
by saddestcatever 7y ago
I don't have the numbers on hand, but it's likely even more drastic.
The original blog post has long since been deleting (https://theblog.okcupid.com/your-looks-and-your-inbox-8715c0f1561e https://theblog.okcupid.com/your-looks-and-your-inbox-8715c0...), but according to one of the OKCupid founders:
> [Women] rate a whopping 80% of men on the site as ‘below average’.
You can imagine that people aren't swiping for "average", so the selected percentage would be even less.
Link: https://techcrunch.com/2009/11/18/okcupid-inbox-attractive/ https://techcrunch.com/2009/11/18/okcupid-inbox-attractive/
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 7y agoIt's hard not to. The average actor you see on TV is >8. If you show someone a subset of a population to represent the majority them you'll cause them to expect that. Which is my hypothesis behind why 80% of women are vying for 20% of men. I think, in general, men are more willingto compromise on appearance than women.