the okcupid blog was a treasure, so many posts along the lines of "hey check out this crazy thing we noticed in our data" that would be totally unpublishable today
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serious question: since female attr. distr. has a natural bell curve but male attr. distr. is biased low, could it still be messaging rates are commensurate with attractiveness index equally for both genders but then throttled by the lopsided distribution in population?
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or are there visual features to those graphs that have already excluded that as a possibility?
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I don't think inter-gender pop difference would be a factor because this is entirely in terms of percentages
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the biggest confounder is message volume imo
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more specifically the facts that a) men send way more messages than women, and b) more often than not it's men who open and women who choose
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(the post isn't entirely clear whether "messages" means openers or all communication but the fact that they go on to discuss reply rates makes me think the former)
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it's likely that many men message all the women they can in the range from "slightly below my standards" to "haha there's no way *she* would reply to *me*... but hey, maybe!"
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(it's well-documented in both dating apps and bars female 7-9s get much more attention than 10s, because the latter almost all men see as unattainable)
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Hard for me to read this chart. Can you elaborate?
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I think it means, at a very general, rhetorical level, that women think men are ugly and both sexes tend to punch above their weight. Unless someone else gathered something more significant that I'm missing?
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Fact you're not sure after you probably reviewed it a few times makes me wonder :) Poor chart :)
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This should be in every social psych class.
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