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A lot of dating research suffers from issues with status signals interfering with stated preference. Men overstate their number of sexual partners and women und
by stuartjohnson12 2y ago
A lot of dating research suffers from issues with status signals interfering with stated preference. Men overstate their number of sexual partners and women understate theirs because doing so affords them status. Reporting that you have very high standards for your mate is a higher status behaviour than reporting that you have low standards, so people who desire status will tend to overstate their requirements for sexual partners.
Social media probably exaggerates this effect somewhat, but it's hard to say how much it transfers.
This will probably get a lot of upvotes though because it appears to confirm common HN user priors.
- s1artibartfast 2y agoThat's a fair point. I know a lot of people are miserable with dating apps, but they don't exactly have a controlled parallel experience. There are huge romanticizing and grass is always greener and roma biases when comparing to an unlived past. That doesn't mean there aren't material differences, justs that comparison usually come from speculation opposed to data