A 4-month online dating experiment using 10 fictional singletons (2012)

Re:A 4-month online dating experiment using 10 fictional sin... by polishdude20 on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @10:28PM (#25205731)

It's funny how height (a trait which we have very little control over) gets the green card for filtering but weight (a trait we very much have control over) is deemed too offensive to ask for.

I think it's because we know that our weight is completely up to us and that a failure of keeping the weight that is desirable to others is a failure of ourselves. It's a thing we deep down know is our own fault and it scares us. As for height, it's not my fault I'm short or tall, if you don't like it, meh, I didn't screw up or anything.

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Re:A 4-month online dating experiment using 10 fictional sin... by decafninja on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @10:44PM (#25205842)

Is it market dynamics in action? Someone above said that women hate the idea of having a weight filter, and they tend to have the power on the market here (because they are more "in demand"). I know many men hate being subjected to a height filter, but they tend to have less power on the market (because most are a dime a dozen).

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Re:A 4-month online dating experiment using 10 fictional sin... by scarmig on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @11:55PM (#25206160)

Yep. Most intrinsic theories of "why not have a weight filter" fail because they can't explain the many online dating sites (primarily LGBT) that do offer a weight filter, because it's very obviously a major factor in attraction that's easily quantifiable. The theory that the available filters are driven by which market participants have market power, on the other hand, does.

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