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Re:Need help with students who've turned my class into a dat... by Gigachad on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @01:13AM (#34591855)
The real source behind this statement was that Ok Cupid once published a blog post with some analysis of their data. They found that the average man on the platform was rated as bellow average attractiveness by woman while the average woman was ranked as average attractiveness by men. There were some more related stats in the same post.

This of course exploded and they deleted the post.

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Re:Need help with students who've turned my class into a dat... by tarsinge on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @06:10AM (#34593742)
This one?[0] It's funny it's always cited with the reversed finding: while men were more fair in rating attractiveness, they then only target the top most attractive females, completely oblivious of where they stand. OTOH women were more harsh in rating but they are then able to shift their expectation to realistic ones. By these data dating only works if you are in the top X% of attractiveness if you are a woman, but it works better for the average man.

[0]https://techcrunch.com/2009/11/18/okcupid-inbox-attractive/

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