| > Where do you get the 2% number? Just curious. It's an imperfect number, but it comes from one of the graphs in dataclysm. It was a graph that paired attractiveness vs. amount of incoming messages. For men messaging women it's mostly linear (more attractive women get more messages, but the high end gets maybe twice as many as the low end). For women messaging men, it's a flat line at zero until the top 2% of male attractiveness at which it ticks up (a bit, still pretty unusual even then). This is an imperfect metric because a lot of that skew is around who initiates at all which mostly falls to men, but it's tricky to get perfect data. Swipe data would be better, but dataclysm was written before the move to swiping mutual matching started (and now the sites don't publish anything interesting). I'd predict the swipe data would match the initial message data similarly, it'd be interesting to see it. > Maybe they'd widen their net and invest more time with the smaller number of matches they do get. I'd suspect they'd go to other apps where they have more power (and the men would follow). |