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http://priceonomics.com/online-dating-and-the-death-of-the-mixed/
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This is a very interesting article, I'm reading it now, it has far more content than the usual fluff.
This part corroborates something that Fred has been arguing for a while:
Instead it’s well established among academics interested in dating that “opposites attract†is a myth. Study after study supports the idea of “assortative matingâ€: the hypothesis that people generally date and marry partners who are like them in terms of social class, educational background, race, personality, and, of course, attractiveness. To use fratboy vernacular: 7s date other 7s, and a 3 has no chance with a 10.
There is an exception, however, to this seeming rule that people always date equally attractive people: The longer two people know each other before they start dating, the more likely it is that a 3 will date a 6, or a 7 will marry a 10.
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This is a very interesting article, I'm reading it now, it has far more content than the usual fluff.
This part corroborates something that Fred has been arguing for a while:
the data is clear that men’s preferences are much more homogenous than women’s. “There are women who 95% of men say yes to, and there’s nothing like that for men,” says McLeod. “A man is really attractive if 40% of women say yes.”