[burfog]

Half of US adults are women.

Men, after aging for the last 10 years: "No, it hasn't gotten harder."

Women, after aging for the last 10 years: "Yes, it has gotten harder."

[the_jeremy]

> single-and-looking men and women report equal levels of dissatisfaction with their dating lives and the ease of finding people to date

The article is not long. Please don't make unfounded claims that are directly refuted by the article we're supposed to be discussing.

[burfog]

I carefully read it, determining that my claim was not directly refuted. The text you quoted is suggestive of that, but look at the actual numbers.

[tthrowaway4009]

This is a well-spread stereotype but is it backed up by reality? At the bare minimum I'd like to know about HN's personal experiences during their twenties and thirties.

[burfog]

Back when OkCupid used to publish interesting statistics, they showed exactly that. It was dramatic and unmistakable. Male value starts low, gradually rises until about age 30, doesn't change much until about age 50, and then very slowly declines. Female value looks almost like a 1/age plot, starting very high and in a downward plunge. No data was available for females under age 18, but the graph slope suggests that value is higher.

[thhhhrowaway44]

What do you mean by 'value' and how is it measured? Like the raw response rate? An ELO rating as I hear some apps do? Or a google-style pagerank thing?