‎OK cupid studies proving how women have much more varied tastes than men. • r/Braincels

SubsaharanAmerican · 2018-04-12T03:31:28+00:00

This was posted on IT a couple of months ago, so I'll excerpt the key portions of my posts from the thread there onto here:

Women were especially harsh when rating men on a 0-5 scale in OKcupid's data. Look at the picture of the "significantly below medium" men the blog-writers included to further drive home this point. If those men were rated 0's, and they look decent -- to both my own and the blog-writers' eyes -- then it raises a serious question of whether there is a deeper physical attractiveness-rating substructure of 0s where women would categorize the "decent-looking" 0s as "messagable" and the truly unattractive 0s (by conventional standards) as "unmessagable." Without a way to probe whether such a substructure exists (or, alternatively, perhaps using a 0-10 rating scale instead), the generalizability of the blog post to incels who don't look like the "decent-looking" 0s pictured is compromised.

It is entirely possible that a subpopulation of the 0s -- the "decent-looking" 0s -- may account for all 11% of the messages. Without knowing whether it does or doesn't, it's hard to speak on its implications/generalizability. TBH, the entire distribution of both the messages and the attractiveness ratings makes me more so question OkCupid's rating platform and the implications of first-messages by women on the site than uprooting any intuitive notions regarding the influence of conventional attractiveness. Unfortunately, since this wasn't a peer reviewed manuscript, but only a mere blog post, crucial details that might help in teasing out wtf is going on are wholly lacking.

Edit: More methodical review here.

dullsite · 2018-04-12T00:03:44+00:00

Women don't message men. Let's see this done with bumble.

Title	‎OK cupid studies proving how women have much more varied tastes than men. • r/Braincels
Author	Pomodoro2
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Date	April 11, 2018 11:44 PM UTC (8 years ago)
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