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Source study (as far as I can tell): https://home.uchicago.edu/~hortacsu/onlinedating.pdf https://home.uchicago.edu/~hortacsu/onlinedating.pdf Jump to Table 5.
by icegreentea2 4y ago
Source study (as far as I can tell): https://home.uchicago.edu/~hortacsu/onlinedating.pdf https://home.uchicago.edu/~hortacsu/onlinedating.pdf
Jump to Table 5.5 if you want. You can also look around at the other tables surrounding it. Focusing on male height makes for easy twitter-ness. The rest of the tables are less fun to talk about. Based on my interpretation of "Not Feasible" (I couldn't find a good definition in the paper), there is no amount of money that would make moderately tall woman (> 5'8") as attractive as the median height woman (5'5"). And there's no amount of money that would make a less than top 10 percentile attractive woman as attractive (Table 5.4) as a top 10 percentile woman - which is not the case for men.
You can draw your own conclusions about how accurately the data and approach in the paper maps reality. But taken at face value, it's not just short men getting a bad deal.
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- vannevar 4y agoThe data is for online only, as far as I can tell. So the conclusion is more like, a description of a 6'0" man making $62K is more appealing than a description of a 5'6" man making $237K. I suspect that the results for in-person dating would be very different, because height differences in actual couples are less pronounced than stated preferences would suggest (https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0054186 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...).