this is unfortunate, this was good and useful data. hopefully most is archived. i hate this part of the current internet architecture. those pages are part of peoples' exocortices goddammithttps://twitter.com/eli_schiff/status/992436937276436481 …
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that's a dumb and incorrect take, if that's why they did it. those graphs are reflective of evo psych realities in general, not unique to okcupid or even online dating. therefore such data can only serve to help even the playing field by existing
we've both seen the data though. it's fascinating for EvoPsych in an academic sense, but do you think it helps persuade people to use a dating website if you're, like, not in the top 5% of physical attractiveness (and photograph well)?
if you know that mate choice is INCREDIBLY visually driven would you choose to use a medium that hyper-emphasizes visuals and dampens non-visual signals? I wouldn't. I'd use one that does the opposite.
this line of reasoning works for Tinder. if anything the data would have a clever use in trying to steal market share from Tinder tbh, with the right marketing. okcupid has detailed profiles and does matching based on filters vs just swiping heuristics
then if they need product differentiation their data science team should cook up some analysis of how awesome and great their profile data and matching heuristics are
also yes. meanwhile anyone with a brain will figure out that a beach body on a guy is the difference between being a 3 incapable of meaningfully attracting anything but a handful of 1s and 2s, and being a 6 who can pull basically anything 4 and below on demand
additionally, those numbers are largely age-independent for males, whereas females pay an increasing age penalty that no amount of self-work can address. there are different but huge "unfairness" on each side. across the duration of life I'd say they are a wash, roughly
this is a depressing topic. all we've really learned is that this shit
is pretty well supported by the data.pic.twitter.com/qHhnIimhUG
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