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by araneae 6093 days ago
Agreed. I think message quality would be highly significant, because black males (not to generalize or anything) are much more likely to use netspeak such as "yo" or "wut" that we learned earlier were response killers. Of course, maybe the reason women don't like these words is because "yo" is a "black" word.

I didn't even think about the money thing, but we do know that women care an awful lot about it. Who knows; a lot of the blatant racism towards black men (i.e. in the self report section) could be because women generalize that black men are poor. It could also explain why everyone seems to want to get with a white dude; he's more likely to be rich/have higher status.