A study analyzed the differences between male and female behavior on Tinder. The study demonstrated the men liked 61.9% of women on Tinder and women liked a mere 4.5% of men on Tinder. This study is illustrative of the fact that women are the selectors of sexual selection

The Pareto distribution, also known as the 80-20 rule, is a “power-law probability distribution” that demonstrates how 20% of people in an economy typically accumulate 80% of the overall income. This 80-20 rule occurs across numerous domains and is widely speculated to exist in the sexual selection domain as well, and it certainly applies to Tinder.

According to a study entitled Tinder Experiments II: Guys, unless you are really hot you are probably better off not wasting your time on Tinder — a quantitative socio-economic study, “the bottom 80% of men (in terms of attractiveness) are competing for the bottom 22% of women and the top 78% of women are competing for the top 20% of men.” This data almost precisely matches the Pareto distribution. The study elaborates to point out the fact that this means that “the Tinder economy has more inequality than 95.1% of all the world’s national economies.” As illustrated by these two studies, if you’re a guy on Tinder, the odds are not on your side.