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throwawayasdfgh
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throwawayasdfgh
8y ago
"The curves are remarkably consistent across all four cities, with men and women on average sending messages to potential partners who are 26 and 23% further up the rankings than themselves, respectively." Maybe 'matching
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throwawayasdfgh
8y ago
Tinder was originally Grindr, and it was meant to solve the double problem gay people had when finding a match, which is both the smaller dating pool and the risk of stigmatization. In this respect it was a huge boon to the gay community. O
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throwawayasdfgh
8y ago
Black men have been unambiguously less desirable than white men for 1000 years among the whole of mankind?
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throwawayasdfgh
8y ago
> the top 80% of women matching with top 20% of men That's simply not true. An actual scientific study [1] shows people match with people 25% more desirable than them on average, not the absolute top 20%. Interestingly, that 25% fig
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throwawayasdfgh
8y ago
I'd like to make a couple of comments to put things into perspective. First, this is all US-based. Granted, Tinder is a thing here in Europe but as far as I know the overwhelming majority of sexual encounters here still occurs in meats