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Re:Online Dating by jhanschoo on Sunday August 11, 2024 @08:13AM (#41215638)
> The top 20% most attractive men get 80% of the likes

I don't like how that (decade?-)old OkCupid's blog post's conclusions keeps being thrown out over and over like it is fact and had reliable methodology that makes those findings generalizable. (Assuming that I am right in identifying that statement's provenance.)

I don't think anyone should base their dating strategy, or what it means to date and be in the dating market for them over that conclusion, and should actually come to their own conclusions based on their own experience, even if it might be as dismal as that finding.

Re:Online Dating by anal_reactor on Sunday August 11, 2024 @10:01AM (#41216219)
I think this clearly shows the shortcomings of modern scientific method: everyone knows X is true, but admitting this would have serious implications to how we've organized the society, so... we just don't.
Re:Online Dating by katzinsky on Sunday August 11, 2024 @10:03AM (#41216226)
Isn't ignoring the results of a careful quantified experiment the opposite of scientific thinking?

Sure it might be secular but it's not scientific.