Oh, it is about the post that okcupid recently deleted, you may want to read it all: https://web.archive.org/web/20120723173702/http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/your-looks-and-online-dating/ …
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Replying to @mere_mortise @SteveStuWill
The absolute number of messages is different: men message way more women than women message men, and they receive fewer responses. Thus, even if the top 20% would receive 40% of the messages (which I could not reconstruct?) the proportion of people courting them is different.
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I wonder how you can read it as "mildly disconfirming hypergamy"? Does this data not suggest that the subjective dating pool for men is larger than the subjective dating pool for women?
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You got it backwards. Actual dating pool consists of the number of people willing to date you, not the number of people you’re willing to date. For men, that number is much smaller. Women have choices, so if Brad Pitt doesn’t bite, they can fall back on Paul Rudd or Seth Rogan
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Replying to @IbnChristo @Plinz and
A 2/10 man can live in a city where every woman is a 10/10 to him, but his dating pool is small if the majority of men are 3+/10
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Also women are increasingly going their own way and opting out of dating for various reasons. Probably in part due to lack of suitable men... at least the data shows this!
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Replying to @IbnChristo
Yes, more women invest their twenties into building careers, and obtain (on average) a higher status than they did a few decades ago. At the same time, they prefer men with equal or higher status, which tend to be scarce or unavailable to them once they are in their 30ies.
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Replying to @Plinz
Hate to jump to conclusions on these things because there’s a million visible and invisible variables... as bad as this sounds: do you think the shrinking gender earnings gap will further exacerbate this?
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Replying to @IbnChristo @Plinz
Women have flipped the college graduate demographic in their favor recently. As that generation matures into seasoned professionals, the pay gap SHOULD also be eliminated. That would further decrease the subjective dating pool. Norms have to shift to accommodate or...
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Not sure how much of that is dictated by norms instead of incentives. Sometimes just following your individual incentives will lead to statistically bad outcomes.
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