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"A former Bumble product manager says that a majority of women on the platform tend to set a floor of 6 feet for men, which would limit their candidate pool to

"A former Bumble product manager says that a majority of women on the platform tend to set a floor of 6 feet for men, which would limit their candidate pool to about 15% of the population." 6 feet = 182 cm. https://www.wsj.com/articles/online-dating-investing-match-tinder-bumble-11657890982 https://www.wsj.com/articles/online-dating-investing-match-t...

Psychlist 4y ago
I think that's hilarious. I have to admit to setting my filter to 175cm just to see if there were any tall women in my area. It wasn't a useful filter. But I did really enjoy briefly dating someone over 180cm, we both put everything in the kitchen up high etc. Plus no bending down to hug her. But counter-anecdote: I visited an ex-gf the other day to borrow something from her new partner, and she actually commented "I forget how tall you are". And it wasn't a positive thing, it was quite explicitly "new boyfriend is my height and it's great". Albeit that's 1.5m vs 1.8m so it's quite a difference. Maybe we need a rule like "half your age plus 7"... "no more than 10% height difference?"
- sokoloff 4y ago
  4’11” is very short (0th percentile) for a guy. (1st percentile is 156.3 cm/5’1.5”.)
  - Psychlist 4y ago
    Are you using US statistics to go with your conversion to US measurements? In Australia we have several ethnic communities where the stats for stuff like height diverge noticeably from the national stats. So "immigrated from The Netherlands" as a category will be taller by a few percent, "immigrated from China" will be shorter and have greater sexual dimorphism.
    - sokoloff 4y ago
      I don't recall what site I was using before. I found one that let you specify country and 150cm is shorter than 99.99% of 30 year old males from Australia. https://www.gigacalculator.com/calculators/height-percentile-calculator.php?metric=metric&height=150&heightadd=cm&heightft=5&heightin=10&gender=male&agey=30&agem=0&country=Australia https://www.gigacalculator.com/calculators/height-percentile...
- bombcar 4y ago
  What I’ve heard is that something like 80% of couples the guy is taller. Not necessarily tall, just taller.
denkmoon 4y ago
I am right on the margin at 183cm on a good day. IMO it's something short men should just lie about, in my (limited) experience women are dreadful at estimating height and just want "taller than me".
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aussiethebob 4y ago
This seems like poor strategy for most women. Assuming an individual women is of average attractiveness but going after the most attractive guy they can land, it would be better to go after top 5% 5'11" guy with less competition than land a mid range 6'2" guy.
- lvass 4y ago
  Unless you're optimizing for sexual desirability of offspring, which essentially means you look for the same characteristics the majority does.

Psychlist 4y ago

I think that's hilarious. I have to admit to setting my filter to 175cm just to see if there were any tall women in my area. It wasn't a useful filter. But I did really enjoy briefly dating someone over 180cm, we both put everything in the kitchen up high etc. Plus no bending down to hug her. But counter-anecdote: I visited an ex-gf the other day to borrow something from her new partner, and she actually commented "I forget how tall you are". And it wasn't a positive thing, it was quite explicitly "new boyfriend is my height and it's great". Albeit that's 1.5m vs 1.8m so it's quite a difference. Maybe we need a rule like "half your age plus 7"... "no more than 10% height difference?"

sokoloff 4y ago
4’11” is very short (0th percentile) for a guy. (1st percentile is 156.3 cm/5’1.5”.)
- Psychlist 4y ago
  Are you using US statistics to go with your conversion to US measurements? In Australia we have several ethnic communities where the stats for stuff like height diverge noticeably from the national stats. So "immigrated from The Netherlands" as a category will be taller by a few percent, "immigrated from China" will be shorter and have greater sexual dimorphism.
  - sokoloff 4y ago
    I don't recall what site I was using before. I found one that let you specify country and 150cm is shorter than 99.99% of 30 year old males from Australia. https://www.gigacalculator.com/calculators/height-percentile-calculator.php?metric=metric&height=150&heightadd=cm&heightft=5&heightin=10&gender=male&agey=30&agem=0&country=Australia https://www.gigacalculator.com/calculators/height-percentile...
bombcar 4y ago
What I’ve heard is that something like 80% of couples the guy is taller. Not necessarily tall, just taller.

denkmoon 4y ago

I am right on the margin at 183cm on a good day. IMO it's something short men should just lie about, in my (limited) experience women are dreadful at estimating height and just want "taller than me".

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aussiethebob 4y ago

This seems like poor strategy for most women. Assuming an individual women is of average attractiveness but going after the most attractive guy they can land, it would be better to go after top 5% 5'11" guy with less competition than land a mid range 6'2" guy.

lvass 4y ago
Unless you're optimizing for sexual desirability of offspring, which essentially means you look for the same characteristics the majority does.