Where do you live? I think city is highly variable. It also gets easier as you get older (for heterosexual men) which could be a factor. This is the kind of th

Where do you live? I think city is highly variable. It also gets easier as you get older (for heterosexual men) which could be a factor. This is the kind of thing where you can’t trust what people say since what they say and how they act are very different (the dataclysm book is good for this). For the matching case if you get zero matches you can’t progress to dates (or even chat). The selection happens prior to that. You're probably right though that it's not only attractiveness, there's also a selective pressure where men are generally okay dating 'down' economically and women are generally not. While more women become economically successful (good thing) it further constrains the availability on the dating market. The only reason I focused on the attractiveness stat first is that on apps like Hinge/Tinder it's a prereq to even getting to the economic piece. Diana S. Fleischman (evolutionary psychologist) and Julia Galef discuss some of this and other things on this podcast which I thought was pretty good: http://rationallyspeakingpodcast.org/show/rs-216-diana-fleischman-on-being-a-transhumanist-evolutionar.html http://rationallyspeakingpodcast.org/show/rs-216-diana-fleis...