Re:Why Online Dating (Still) Sucks, and a Simple Attempt at ...
by lucaspiller on Wednesday February 22, 2012 @06:10AM
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Interesting study... got a link?
Re:Why Online Dating (Still) Sucks, and a Simple Attempt at ...
by Tichy on Wednesday February 22, 2012 @06:38AM
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Found this after some googling: http://www.madsciencebook.com/07bedwithme.htm
The googling brought up lots of fun stuff :-)
Re:Why Online Dating (Still) Sucks, and a Simple Attempt at ...
by itmag on Wednesday February 22, 2012 @06:28AM
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Probably this: http://www.elainehatfield.com/79.pdf
Re:Why Online Dating (Still) Sucks, and a Simple Attempt at ...
by itmag on Wednesday February 22, 2012 @06:53AM
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Problems with this:
1) Only done on 16 girls. Sample size is small. 2) More than 30 years old. Changing mores. 3) Women are likely to fear random men who approach them, the reverse is not true. This experiment should have been done differently: they should have achieved some rapport/comfort with the mark and created some sexual tension, and then asked for sex. My guess is that at least a few of the women would have responded favorably in that case.
Re:Why Online Dating (Still) Sucks, and a Simple Attempt at ...
by Tichy on Wednesday February 22, 2012 @07:23AM
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One Night Stands happen, at least according to popular mythology. So obviously women can be convinced to have sex. But I think what you describe would be a completely different experiment. For starters, would you assume that any men would be able to "create some sexual tension" with any women? Otherwise your setup would already contain a lot of bias.
A richer hubby presumably increases survival chances for the offspring (independent of the actual biological father of said offspring). But the fact remains that a woman can easily get laid any time, if she wants to.
There was this famous experiment where students approached other students on university campus and asked them if they would like to have sex. Don't recall the numbers, but there was a real high discrepancy between the sexes, basically most men who were approached by women said yes, whereas hardly any women said yes. So basically as a chick, just walk up to some men and ask.
Of course modern society complicates it a bit because men now have the risk of paternity charges (a societal construct).