The answer to that is no.
u/EasyBriesyCheesiful writes:
You need to understand how OkC gathers their data for things like this. For their attractiveness scale, they use what they get from the “quick match” section of the site. What users see is a picture of the guy and a small portion of his profile. They have the option to rate him 1-5 stars or to “skip.” If you rate 4-5, it tells the other person that you “liked” them. If you “skip” the person, it rates them as a 0 of 5 - but nowhere does it say that this is a thing. This is why the scale for guys’ attractiveness has a weird bump below 1 - from women skipping.
Women are likely to rate lower or skip entirely if they don’t want a guy to message them. And on OkC culture, women typically get messaged a ton. They don’t want anyone messaging them unless they want to be messaged. This holds true even if they would consider a guy physically attractive - something turned them off or they just don’t want them messaging for some other reason.
Guys are more likely to rate high on anyone they consider attractive because they don’t typically have problems with too many messages.
There’s also no change in positioning on the page, so a lot of people will just sit on one rating (or skip) until they come to someone they like enough for OkC to tell them.
Messaging statistics are combined with these ratings (to attach an “attractiveness” score) and drawn from who messages and replies to who.
So this whole thing can really only give insight into OkC dating culture, not much in the physical world.
What is important to realize is that
2/3 of male messages go to the top 1/3 of women.
and that
[...]men show a decided preference for younger women, especially as the men get older.
Then you get the double-edged sword of when attractive women do become sexually available as men pressure them to, men devalue them because they think they're too easy. Not to mention the pervasive notion that much of females' value rests in their appearance. Someone also suggested that beautiful women are far more likely to practice "serial monogamy", that is changing partners when they see the possibility of having a better mate and guess what makes such a strategy possible? It's men's overwhelming preference for beautiful women.
source:
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/opinion/sunday/google-tell-me-is-my-son-a-genius.html?hp&rref=opinion&_r=1
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