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And yet this is directly in opposition to the old OKCupid data in which men rating women was a bell curve while women rating men was almost a power law (or high
by bsder 3y ago
And yet this is directly in opposition to the old OKCupid data in which men rating women was a bell curve while women rating men was almost a power law (or highly skewed curve).
And the breeeding age opinions are most critical to the people who most care about attractiveness.
It's nice when the 60 year old grandparent thinks you're attractive. It matters whether the 22 year old clerk thinks you're attractive.
- scarmig 3y agoThe issue with the OkC data is that self-reports aren't particularly useful. The most meaningful metric is actual conversions (in the OLD context, you could call that either a match, the existence of a reply-response pair, or something else along those lines). That data is much harder to come by, but it'd show a significant correlation in who people choose to convert with.
- kukkeliskuu 3y agoIIRC, OkC also had one classic post which was something between self-reporting and conversion (how you appear to use the term) -- how often men respond to messages by women and vice versa.
- TacticalCoder 3y ago> It's nice when the 60 year old grandparent thinks you're attractive. Live must be though when the 60 year old grandparent tells a grandkid he's fugly!
- astrange 3y agoWhat the OKCupid data showed that everyone forgot is that it didn't matter that the women rated men lower, because it didn't affect their actual behavior.
- kukkeliskuu 3y agoI am not sure what OkCupid data you talk about, but some of their posts also showed that women respond to messages by men much less than vice versa. It was based on actual behavior, not reporting.
- astrange 3y agoThere was a famous OKCupid post showing that men rated women on a bell curve (so the average was 5/10), but women rated men on average much lower. Everyone took this to mean that women only want to date the top 20% of men. But it actually just meant women give out lower ratings and that's the only thing it meant.
- Brian_K_White 3y agoThe content of mens messages had a lot to do with rate of responses. I don't remember if that was quantized in any way to try to control for it and remove it as a variable, or if it was just some article that showed what the average messages were, but it was bad, and I don't think rate of response is meaningful without factoring that in somehow.
- blendo 3y ago> It's nice when the 60 year old grandparent thinks you’re attractive. Or step-grandparent.