Re:Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living a...
by lelanthran on Friday June 11, 2021 @11:08AM
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> Thousands of matches isn’t a good thing.
He didn't say it was, he said it was preferable to having no matches.
I recall seeing the OkCupid stats once (okstats?). The numbers pretty much said that although women were getting most of the messages, they were all only responding to the same 10% of males, while most men were sending messages to almost all the women.
You've pretty much got 80% of the women competing for the top 10% of the males.
Re:Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living a...
by akomtu on Friday June 11, 2021 @10:12PM
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That 80% number might give a false hope to readers. In fact it's 100%, but the bottom 20% give up without trying because they correctly assess their chances.
He didn't say it was, he said it was preferable to having no matches.
I recall seeing the OkCupid stats once (okstats?). The numbers pretty much said that although women were getting most of the messages, they were all only responding to the same 10% of males, while most men were sending messages to almost all the women.
You've pretty much got 80% of the women competing for the top 10% of the males.