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I had a good friend who said he thought dating apps only work for people who are attractive. Looking at my own friends in my life who have had successful relati

I had a good friend who said he thought dating apps only work for people who are attractive. Looking at my own friends in my life who have had successful relationships from dating apps and those who are frustrated by them, I'd say my friend was wrong. Dating apps only work for _very_ attractive people, 7 out of 10 guys and up (6/10 and up for women). The market graphs in the article are really apt.

toomuchtodo 7y ago
"It was determined that the bottom 80% of men (in terms of attractiveness) are competing for the bottom 22% of women and the top 78% of women are competing for the top 20% of men." https://medium.com/@worstonlinedater/tinder-experiments-ii-guys-unless-you-are-really-hot-you-are-probably-better-off-not-wasting-your-2ddf370a6e9a https://medium.com/@worstonlinedater/tinder-experiments-ii-g... (Tinder Experiments II: Guys, unless you are really hot you are probably better off not wasting your time on Tinder — a quantitative socio-economic study)