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Somewhat relevant: from a study cited in this (http://whytherearenogirls.blogspot.com/2009/08/14-lop-sided-gender-ratio.html http://whytherearenogirls.blogspot.
by Jun8 13y ago
Somewhat relevant: from a study cited in this (http://whytherearenogirls.blogspot.com/2009/08/14-lop-sided-gender-ratio.html http://whytherearenogirls.blogspot.com/2009/08/14-lop-sided-...) interesting post we learn that
"unbalanced gender ratios did not seem to problematize proportionally. The research showed that as the sex ratio augmented in favor of women, at first, as you would expect, the women simply turned fussy and went for richer and more powerful men. But at a certain point a curious thing happened: the amount of socioeconomic status a guy needed to get girl increased way more than the math would predict. Specifically when the ratio was tilted in favor of women by 10%, low status men became not 1.1 times less likely to get a girl but 2.3 times less likely and high status men 1.3 times less likely."
The post uses this as proof for the fact that SF hooking up prospects are so bad.
- btilly 13y agoFascinating. I wonder if the same tendency ruins online dating? My guess as to a reason is that women who have been hit on aggressively by some number of men eventually get cynical. But once you're cynical, you reflexively reject all of the aggressive men, and never spot the less aggressive men, with the result that you're in permanent "fast reject" mode.
- jacques_chester 13y ago> Fascinating. I wonder if the same tendency ruins online dating? Yes. Luckily, most men never really try that hard on dating websites.
- mynegation 13y agoThe situation is reverse in Russia and Ukraine. One may notice how most younger Russian women are well-dressed and well-groomed, whereas men... not so much. Tobacco, alcohol, local wars, high crime an high incarceration rates decreased gender balance in favour of men and it shows.
- sobbybutter 13y agoNonlinearities like this are pretty interesting. You can see similar effects in systems like traffic grids (where the addition of a small number of vehicles can make congestion much, much worse) and commodity prices (e.g. small shortage of oil causing incredible price shocks), among others.