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by barrkel
6053 days ago
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Have a look at the graph again: http://cdn.okcimg.com/blog/your_looks_and_inbox/Message-Mult... This shows that the most attractive people get more messages than those less attractive, uniformly. It does not provide evidence for the existence of "A and B such that beauty(A) > beauty(B) AND suitors(A) < suitors(B)". I think you're confused by the distribution graph: http://cdn.okcimg.com/blog/your_looks_and_inbox/Male-Messagi... But the "dip" on the right doesn't mean what you seem to think it does. If there were no dip, and the message distribution line had a uniformly positive slope, it would mean that the majority of all messages would be going to the most attractive women. The existence of the dip simply means that the sheer number of women with average attractiveness get enough messages to outweigh the tiny percentage who are most attractive in total number of messages. My last sentence was about physical meetings; the rest of my comments were with respect to online messaging on dating sites like okcupid. In other words, I was suggesting that the old wives' tale may have more truth with respect to face to face than online. |
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