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Re:The Problem with Modern Romance Is Too Much Choice by mancerayder on Saturday October 08, 2016 @07:13PM (#12669159)
Hooking up stats are rather clear: around 80% of women have sex with around 20% of men. That's why an average looking guy on PoF/CL/Tinder/OkCupid has very little chance compared to real life.

While I think this sounds very true, do you have a reference?

It completely matches the experience in the city I live in, and I'd love to be able to quote it to people.

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Re:The Problem with Modern Romance Is Too Much Choice by imaginenore on Saturday October 08, 2016 @07:33PM (#12669223)
Sorry, speaking from my experience. And probably most guys experience. Everyone who has been to highschool can see it.

OKCupid has some research, but they don't record actual sex encounters. They have stats like "As you can see from the gray line, women rate an incredible 80% of guys as worse-looking than medium".

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Re:The Problem with Modern Romance Is Too Much Choice by tomp on Sunday October 09, 2016 @10:11PM (#12674614)
The closest thing to "fact" is that about 1/3 of men alive historically have reproduced, compared to about 2/3 of women (or is it 40%-60%?).
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