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by bsder
1877 days ago
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Yes. The data shows that women have a huge misunderstanding of "male attractiveness": https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/okcupid/yourlooksandyo... That's a gigantic problem in that even if a woman estimates herself correctly relative to other females, she totally mis-estimates the men she's equivalent to. Men, on the other hand, understand female attractiveness quite well. However, they put in a lot of effort to land that female that punches above their weight in attractiveness. |
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All the data says is that women think that the average man on OkCupid in 2009 is less attractive than the average man.
Your conclusion: women don't rate mens' attractiveness accurately.
Another conclusion: the average man on a dating site is less attractive than the average man.
Another conclusion: women and men interpret the survey question differently.
You also make the additional assumption that this is some sort of fundamental problem, but that's a separate issue.