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| 1 | Opinions On The Black Pill and R/BlackPillScience?Sub's creator here. And, actually, I have mostly trivial disagreement with the above. However, one thing I do take some exception to is the categorical Othering of the sub, its contributors and the material that's posted. It's not So take most studies there with a grain of salt. At least not as some sort of unique outlier per se. I think one should interpret most studies presented on a public-facing platform, in general, with caution and an abundance of skepticism. Nullius in verba. (Even with d… | /r/ExRedPill | 25/09/20 11:37 PM |
| – | Women who espouse feminist beliefs are just as likely to have fantasies of forced sex as are other women (Shulman & Horne, 2006)Note: the title of this post is lifted verbatim from Critelli & Bivona (2008), which is a systematic review of the literature on this topic (full-text available via sci-hub). As the review article suggests, the subject of erotic rape fantasies in women is complex, could benefit from further research, and one should exercise extreme caution in drawing further conclusions about the implications of such fantasies (see the Erotic Rape Fantasies and Wish Fulfillment section of the review). https://i.… | /r/BlackPillScience | 19/12/19 12:32 AM |
| – | Men’s attraction was correlated with 12 characteristics including partner’s conservatism, all Big Five dimensions except openness, anxiety, and self-esteem. For women, only two partner characteristics showed a correlation: physical attractiveness and sport activity.Repost of a stickied study? Ideally, since the thread is now archived, additional discussion should be posted to r/askblackpillscience in order to avoid further exacerbating this sub’s repost problem | /r/BlackPillScience | 28/09/19 08:31 PM |
| 2 | Students who do not date/cannot get a date are not social misfits, suggests new study, which found that adolescents who were not/cannot be in a relationship had good social skills and low depression, and fared better or equal to peers who dated, refuting the notion that non-daters are maladjustedResubmit linking to the doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/josh.12818 | /r/BlackPillScience | 05/09/19 01:42 PM |
| – | Confidence and Self-Esteem predicts attractiveness in malesThis is comically misleading. Most likely deliberately so and in bad faith. In contrast to the title of this post, this study concerns self-perceived attractiveness and how it covaries with other esteem measures. Decided not to delete in order to add to the many examples of why you should never take anyone's word on what the contents of a given study purports to show. Actual title: Self-perceived attractiveness, romantic desirability and self-esteem: a mating sociometer perspective. Abstract: … | /r/BlackPillScience | 25/07/19 11:49 AM |
| 1 | Young African men are more violent in polygynous groups than in monogamous groups (Koos et al. 2019)Looks like this was removed by the spam filter for whatever reason. Nice find though. I’d resurrect it if it weren’t for the unfortunate title. A direct quote from the abstract would be preferable here as a title. E.g., “young men who belong to polygynous groups feel that they are treated more unequally and are readier to use violence in comparison to those belonging to monogamous groups” | /r/BlackPillScience | 24/07/19 05:10 PM |
| 2 | SMV Curve from "The Rational Male" - I have methodological questions (see comments)r/askblackpillscience fodder | /r/BlackPillScience | 19/06/19 06:27 PM |
| 1 | Women Use Tinder Together: The Data from 634 SwipesInteresting, but probably more suitable for r/askblackpillscience | /r/BlackPillScience | 19/06/19 05:27 AM |
| 2 | Sexual Economics Theory vs. Feminist Theory | MGTOW, INCEL, & ScienceDefinitely r/askblackpillscience fodder Feel free to post the doi URL for the sexual economics theory material he references and include this video as a comment though. Might be worthwhile to familiarize yourself with the discourse before you do, given the subject is apparently a minefield: Roy Baumeister vs Laurie Rudman Also found Grande’s lamentation over anti-antiscientism interesting, if not puzzling. Bring this sub to his attention | /r/BlackPillScience | 19/06/19 05:24 AM |
| 10 | Around 70% of reviewers of true crime literature on Amazon.com are female (Vicary & Fraley, 2010)Restored. It looks like OP triggered the automod when he edited the post 3 days ago. | /r/BlackPillScience | 06/06/19 11:21 AM |
| 1 | IMPORTANCE OF PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS IN DATING BEHAVIORSkimmed abstract. A lot of “he” / male pronouns in this half century old study. Did they assess selectivity of both sexes or just men? Also, link doi.org address to bypass filter | /r/BlackPillScience | 04/06/19 03:26 PM |
| 2 | Your facial structure influences how people see your personalityPop sci. Link directly to article using doi.org address to bypass filter. Title also does not reflect content. This paper only reports facial structure influences assessment of physical strength only; facial expressions for everything else they measured | /r/BlackPillScience | 04/06/19 03:24 PM |
| 1 | Humor production in long-term romantic relationships: What the lack of moderation by sex reveals about humor’s role in mating : HUMORUse doi.org address to bypass filter next time. Something like this would benefit from a title in the form of “X correlated with Y, finds study (APA style parenthetical citation)” | /r/BlackPillScience | 04/06/19 03:19 PM |
| 1 | The much louder and complex female copulatory vocalizations in humans, primates and other animals, may serve to stimulate the mating partner or to incite male competition (Hamilton & Arrowood, 1978)An honest reading of the article (as opposed to the tersely written abstract) does not give the clear impression that the authors intended on suggesting that male competition incitement played any role in humans. If you think I’m mistaken, please quote directly from the article any statements you feel indicate otherwise. Because of the above, the titling of this post is arguably even more disingenuous than your last one. Not keen on letting this stay up. | /r/BlackPillScience | 03/06/19 06:29 AM |
| 1 | Relations between cultural complexity and sexual normsThis does not pass the sniff test at all. Why a series of univariate plots? Why no regression? Have you quantified the strength of the correlations you assert are there? pearson? R2 ? Your intimations also seem at odds with published work on the topic that use the same dataset, e.g., https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2013-41944-003 / https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/c226/2a88db0e42998017f317182f4d74f5e82921.pdf -- which finds, for instance: Linguistic and spatial transmission processes are found to… | /r/BlackPillScience | 02/06/19 05:47 AM |
| 1 | Just as a reminder: All OKCupid blog articles have been archived hereI curate. Generally, without notice: See rule 4. Linking a wiki article about female copulatory vocalization, then pretending the explicitly labeled “nonprimate” portion of that article applies to humans is not exactly high quality. | /r/BlackPillScience | 31/05/19 07:57 PM |
| – | Let's discuss the idea of looksmatch. Any science behind it?The prevailing hypothesis is that it is driven by mutual settling. See https://www.reddit.com/r/BlackPillScience/comments/8jqzp5/explaining_looksmatchism_among_the_average_most/ Edit: Locking. A lot of meta/discussion blog-esque posts lately. Ideally, one should put at least some effort into researching a question before posting it. | /r/BlackPillScience | 28/05/19 09:10 PM |
| 4 | Reverse halo effect?This study is best thought of as adding cautionary nuance when interpreting a more recent trait description study: Fugère et al (2017), which I cover here https://old.reddit.com/r/BlackPillScience/comments/8ayihx/just_dont_be_physically_unattractive_looks_are_a/ Not a fan of trait description studies, however. They have no ecological validity. My further comments below (context: private message exchange after someone reposted the Fugère study): The Fugère article is a favorite among blackpilled … | /r/BlackPillScience | 24/10/18 07:59 PM |
| 6 | Have there been any replications (or contradictions) of OkCupid's oft-quoted graph where women rate 80% of men as below average?https://i.imgur.com/ZWXIHZY.png From https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23743603.2018.1425089 / http://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1080/23743603.2018.1425089 | /r/BlackPillScience | 11/08/18 07:12 PM |
| 5 | Aspirational pursuit of mates in online dating markets [Brutch & Newman, 2018]Snarky jab aside, this is a nice contribution. It is consistent with Sprecher and Hatfield's thesis (covered here) that people aim high but ultimately settle for what they can get, and that this is the best explanation of looksmatchism why couples tend to match on desirability. Regarding your question about the Fig. 3., a better explanation is found in the actual main text of the Results section: In Fig. 3, we show statistics for messages sent and replies received as a function of “desirability … | /r/BlackPillScience | 11/08/18 06:36 PM |
| 11 | Testosterone and mating success (ex post from r/braincels)Skimmed both. I'll have to take a deeper dive when I have time, but it looks like you're misreading the first paper, while the second paper is seemingly an outlier in not finding a main effect for attractiveness on mating success (the "girth" finding is consistent with previous literature though). First, excerpts from the first paper you seem to have overlooked: We found a small, but significant, correlation between testosterone and number of sexual partners, when controlling for age (t107 = 0.1… | /r/BlackPillScience | 07/08/18 02:49 AM |
| – | Conclusive Proof of AWALT and the REAL Female Sexual Strategy...Citations to peer-reviewed literature preferred. Honestly, some of this borders on pseudoscientific: e.g., "pheylethylamine"? | /r/BlackPillScience | 04/08/18 10:36 AM |
| 16 | Physical Attractiveness is the Strongest Predictor of Initial Romantic Interest in Both Sexes; No Evidence Male Personality Plays Any Role for Women (Luo & Zhang, 2009)Thought it was clear I was referring to the proceptive phase rather than established relationships. But that link is a start. The paucity of research doesn't mean you ignore what is out there. As the authors' of this study note, the predictive/explanatory power of partner attractiveness is a reproducible finding in the speed dating world. Acknowledge the limitations and extrapolate appropriately (i.e., online studies with other online platforms and speed dating studies with other cold approachin… | /r/BlackPillScience | 05/07/18 08:51 PM |
| 23 | Physical Attractiveness is the Strongest Predictor of Initial Romantic Interest in Both Sexes; No Evidence Male Personality Plays Any Role for Women (Luo & Zhang, 2009)It's not a confounder, but it is a limitation. It's also clearly addressed in the "Obvious caveat" section of the post. Your reply also implies there are scenarios where the Big 5 are predictive of romantic interest, but you failed to cite any studies showing such. | /r/BlackPillScience | 05/07/18 03:54 AM |
| 9 | [REQUEST] Can we work out a robust definition of black pill?I chose my words with careful deliberation. You essentially answered the question of why that was necessary: Black pill culture wants to assert things like, "Because lookism is true, it's over." It's "because" not "and" that defines the black pill. But there's a more serious problem. The word "naive" involves valuation, not facts, and this is where the politics of the black pill spill out. At what point, under what conditions, is someone authorized to say, "I can do no more"? This is about inter… | /r/BlackPillScience | 21/06/18 05:51 AM |
| – | Stated interest vs actual decisionThis is a repost. https://old.reddit.com/r/BlackPillScience/comments/8e7px3/how_to_blackpill_an_unsuspecting_data_scientist/ | /r/BlackPillScience | 10/06/18 07:34 PM |
| 1 | Maxims or myths of beauty? A meta-analytic and theoretical review.This is a repost. https://old.reddit.com/r/BlackPillScience/comments/8ij62s/maxims_or_myths_of_beauty_a_metaanalytic_and/ | /r/BlackPillScience | 10/06/18 07:32 PM |
| 1 | The Importance of Physical Attractiveness to the Mate Choices of Women and Their MothersThis is a repost. https://old.reddit.com/r/BlackPillScience/comments/8ayihx/just_dont_be_physically_unattractive_looks_are_a/ | /r/BlackPillScience | 10/06/18 07:31 PM |
| 10 | Physical Attractiveness is the Strongest Predictor of Initial Romantic Interest in Both Sexes; No Evidence Male Personality Plays Any Role for Women (Luo & Zhang, 2009)That could be some of it in circumstances where the subject initially declined a mate perceived as higher value. But this assumes what's often called "strategic behavior" though (i.e., that people preemptively reject partners perceived as unattainable), and there's not much evidence for it in the literature (e.g., see Hitsch 2006 and 2010). Instead, I interpreted the postevent dyadic reciprocity finding as driven by more of a "Hmm.. sure, why not, I guess I'd hit it" sentiment. But the metric is… | /r/BlackPillScience | 10/06/18 03:56 PM |
| 1 | BMI preferences in online dating (Hitsch, Hortaçsu, & Ariely, 2006)Unclear if that's what the curvilinear relationship is showing. It's worth keeping in mind that body composition is not factored into BMI; bodybuilders are obese per BMI. | /r/BlackPillScience | 31/05/18 12:01 PM |
| 5 | Physical Attractiveness is the Strongest Predictor of Initial Romantic Interest in Both Sexes; No Evidence Personality Plays Any Role, Part 2 (Olderbak, Malter, Wolf, Jones, & Figueredo, 2017)I do, occasionally. I don't post studies there though. Bit of a time commitment and I'm not sure what more I can say about a study.. there's not really much to debate here | /r/BlackPillScience | 31/05/18 11:47 AM |
| 5 | Physical Attractiveness is the Strongest Predictor of Initial Romantic Interest in Both Sexes; No Evidence Personality Plays Any Role, Part 2 (Olderbak, Malter, Wolf, Jones, & Figueredo, 2017)I would love to know if these findings change at non-zero acquaintance. Paul Eastwick has a paper which sheds some light on this, but it is incredibly limited in its generalizability secondary to using a convenience sample. Nevertheless, in case it may be of interest, I discuss it a little bit here (and include a link). The Eastwick paper's findings are somewhat inconsistent with the 0-acquaintance prefs but it should be noted that with such a limited number of male targets in the Eastwick paper… | /r/BlackPillScience | 31/05/18 11:41 AM |
| 4 | Beauty is not subjective Vol. 3 | What makes a face more feminine or more masculine?While the sexually dimorphic features highlighted in this infographic do have support as secondary sex characteristics (reviewed to some extent here), their contribution to facial attractiveness is less certain in the literature. AFAICT, in the literature, there seems to be a general preference for more masculine faces in gestalt, but even this varies depending on the study methodology used and on context-dependent effects such as hormonal cycle shifts (which are inconsistently associated themse… | /r/BlackPillScience | 31/05/18 10:53 AM |
| 6 | Beauty is not subjective Vol. 1 | The importance of eye areaNah don't worry, I assign it. At some point in the future (prob when I have additional mods) I'll either open it up &/or have a bot assign a flair above a certain vote threshold | /r/BlackPillScience | 26/05/18 10:18 PM |
| 7 | Beauty is not subjective Vol. 1 | The importance of eye areaI appreciate your honesty there. That's not quite how science is done. The "Lay Theory" flair is the most appropriate then. | /r/BlackPillScience | 26/05/18 07:30 PM |
| 7 | Beauty is not subjective Vol. 1 | The importance of eye areaNeeds to be sourced. I have no problem with the content per se though. Going to flair it as "Lay Theory" in the meanwhile | /r/BlackPillScience | 26/05/18 06:54 PM |
| – | Share with no sex in the past yearSource of graph: https://ifstudies.org/blog/male-sexlessness-is-rising-but-not-for-the-reasons-incels-claim Skimming the page: it looks like they caution against overinterpreting the GSS data shown in the graph, but they nevertheless conclude (based on CDC NSFG data), "incels are right to see themselves as part of a novel and fairly extreme change in our society’s sexual behavior." Caveat: IFstudies.org's definition of incel here = "involuntary virgin" -- or, perhaps a more transparent term base… | /r/BlackPillScience | 23/05/18 09:56 PM |
| 7 | If MGTOW aren't low value men why don't they take TRP approach?rollercoaster in this context likely refers to "spinning plates" -- i.e., having multiple casual sex partners contemporaneously. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 20/05/18 04:16 AM |
| 7 | This is a request for information: any studies that show women are actively mean to unattractive men?Yeh the actual article in this case is rather amusing... Certainly a good find. I'd rather encourage people to do their own google scholar or pubmed searches, then share their findings. Even the originally linked daily mail write-up was perhaps the lowest quality science journalism I've ever seen. They mentioned the journal and random specific details about the study, but never linked or even mention the name of the actual study, nor did they mention any of its authors (to my frustration since I… | /r/BlackPillScience | 18/05/18 06:27 PM |
| 8 | This is a request for information: any studies that show women are actively mean to unattractive men?Interesting. Let's avoid making these request threads a trend though. Full-text link: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1948550615584196 (probably paywalled -- idk, I can't access the site right now for whatever reason). "Resisting connection following social exclusion: Rejection by an attractive suitor provokes derogation of an unattractive suitor"-- Geoff Macdonald et al 2015 Adding to my to-read list. Edit: DOI in the URL for the sci-hub users: http://sci-hub.tw/10.1177/194855061558… | /r/BlackPillScience | 18/05/18 05:01 AM |
| – | Aggressive, narcissistic, bullying, "jerkish" men have higher numbers of sexual partners, have sex more often and have higher self-esteemSlight correction to the OP, there are actually 3 studies cited here (omitting the press releases): https://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs40806-017-0126-4 http://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167214543879 https://scottbarrykaufman.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/The-Dark-Triad-Personality.pdf | /r/BlackPillScience | 17/05/18 08:34 PM |
| 4 | Cues of upper body strength account for most of the variance in men's bodily attractiveness (paywalled)Nice summary. Most important paragraph from the study: The results show that most male bodily attractiveness stems from cues of formidability and physical strength, and that strength increases attractiveness in a linear fashion. The rated strength of a male body accounts for a full 70% of the variance in attractiveness. Additional variance (up to 80%) can be explained by adding the premium women put on height and subtracting the penalty put on additional body mass unrelated to physical strength.… | /r/BlackPillScience | 17/05/18 01:13 AM |
| – | Being ethnic is as bad as being 5'4'' according to studies. (Racepill Part 1)I cover the Hitsch 2010 in some detail (last link in sidebar -- in the old reddit style, haven't figured out the new style yet). Even created a google docs spreadsheet with the model's marginal effects. Regarding the interpretation though: always look at the 95% confidence intervals. None of the absolute height marginal effects were statistically significant (the 95% CI all included 0), which is why Hitsch et al interpreted absolute height as not showing an effect for that model (not sure what t… | /r/BlackPillScience | 16/05/18 12:15 AM |
| 6 | "Sexy" people are perceived as funnier, but funnier people are NOT perceived as sexierFinally got around to taking a look at the cited study. Interesting findings, thanks for the post. Comment on this halo by the authors: [T]here was an interaction between conditions suggesting that individuals who were higher in attractiveness were rated as being funnier in conditions with visual elements whilst individuals of lower attractiveness were rated as less funny than they were rated in the audio condition, although it is unclear why actors in the low attractiveness group would be less … | /r/BlackPillScience | 15/05/18 06:20 AM |
| 11 | Warrior vs Wimp Skulls In MenThese are good, well-produced videos. The one for women is also pretty amusing. And while I am inclined to agree with the content of the videos, I must acknowledge it's probably best characterized as "quasi-supported" by the current literature. Facial symmetry, "facial averageness", and sexual dimorphism are relatively well-studied areas. But AFAICT, precise craniofacial and mandibular measurements and ratios influencing attractiveness is less robustly studied (especially for men, it seems), alt… | /r/BlackPillScience | 12/05/18 11:56 PM |
| 2 | "Maxims or myths of beauty? A meta-analytic and theoretical review" - A summary and linkIf I could sticky links, I would sticky this. I've previously cited the linked metanalysis by Judith Langlois et al. elsewhere, but it is certainly deserving of its own post in light of the wide disparity between the impact of its findings within the field of psychology (i.e., published in one of the top journals in the field, and cited almost 2000 times in the literature to date) and lay conceptions on the topic. | /r/BlackPillScience | 12/05/18 10:54 PM |
| 27 | 8000 years ago one man would have children with 17 women and the other 16 men would have no childrenThe male reproductive bottleneck coincides with the introduction of pastoralism during the neolithic revolution. It's a fairly well-documented observation that throughout much of human history the increase in sedentism was associated with polygyny and (largely as a consequence) high male reproductive variance (i.e., some males reproducing A LOT, and others not at all). This is true even in many extant societies. This is reviewed further in http://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gde.2016.08.… | /r/BlackPillScience | 08/05/18 05:01 AM |
| 29 | 8000 years ago one man would have children with 17 women and the other 16 men would have no childrenThis is actually a re-post, but I let this one stay up because of its accessibility and because they interview a few of the co-authors. You should probably read the link. One of the major points of the entire paper is to argue the literal opposite of your post (or, to at least cast considerable doubt on the hypothesis you're entertaining): https://psmag.com/environment/17-to-1-reproductive-success : "It wasn't like there was a mass death of males. They were there, so what were they doing?" asks … | /r/BlackPillScience | 08/05/18 01:43 AM |
| 2 | Looks ratings 101: Nearly all studies show a Cronbach's alpha > 0.80 for inter-rater reliability. What does this mean? Putting the neomancr hypothesis to the testTells you how reliable the mean of a set of ratings is in representing the judgements of individual raters. The method employed here to calculate Cronbach alpha is 1-(mean squared error/mean squares for Ice Cream ratings) or, put another way: 1-(variation of ratings within a given Ice cream / variation of mean ratings between the different Ice creams) Hence, if your ratings are all over the place for each target (such as the neomancr dataset tested), your mean squared error, or MSE, would be so … | /r/BlackPillScience | 04/05/18 06:16 AM |
| – | Women are biologically designed to breed only with the best man; men are biologically designed to breed with as many women as possibleI'm getting a few complaints about the title of this post. But the article is a decent review, so I'm letting it stay. However, for anyone who is curious why the title might drive some biologists (and scientists in general) insane please see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleology_in_biology (i.e., it's not about sensitivity, it's just not the best way to frame evolution) | /r/BlackPillScience | 04/05/18 04:58 AM |
| 11 | Avoiding censorshipHaha it's not that serious. The risk is pretty low. I'm guessing this concern was precipitated by Christian Rudder's recent purge of his most cited blog posts? This is actually why I recommend people to avoid citing non-peer reviewed material if possible; it's just too unreliable in a multitude of ways and doesn't have to meet the same (if any) standards for publication. It's a bit more difficult to erase something that was published in a journal. Also, this isn't the first time Rudder has tried… | /r/BlackPillScience | 04/05/18 04:44 AM |
| – | Empirical support for "Juggernaut Law"?Rudder/Okcupid has purged this blogpost. Back-up: http://archive.is/VELwq | /r/BlackPillScience | 03/05/18 04:55 AM |
| 1 | Looks ratings 101: Nearly all studies show a Cronbach's alpha > 0.80 for inter-rater reliability. What does this mean? Putting the neomancr hypothesis to the testI never indicated homogeneity. For Cronbach's alpha, or any estimate of inter-rater reliability, to be appreciable you need a minimal level of intercorrelations between the raters (i.e., they must be similar enough) but they do not need to be identical. Like I mentioned previously, the test is generally used as a methodological hurdle to qualify ratings to be used as an independent variable. Let me review something I mentioned here against someone else making similar critiques The argument you'r… | /r/BlackPillScience | 02/05/18 02:28 AM |
| 3 | What an awesome sub! Just discovered it. Why isn't it more popular? I will post here from now I have a lot of cool sources.Thanks, it's a new community but outside contribution is certainly welcome | /r/BlackPillScience | 30/04/18 02:55 AM |
| 1 | Looks ratings 101: Nearly all studies show a Cronbach's alpha > 0.80 for inter-rater reliability. What does this mean? Putting the neomancr hypothesis to the testOnly if the studies were trying to measure the influence of different haircuts on the outcome of interest. | /r/BlackPillScience | 25/04/18 03:01 AM |
| 1 | Once normalized, the OKCupid ratings graph shows that women are just as shallow as most men. If women were truthful, it would also show how they don't message sub2.5 men at all. (The original graph shows how they message "zeroes" 10% of the time.Haha that's not quite how normalization works... but I'll leave it up for the humor. On a somewhat related note, https://theblog.okcupid.com/a-womans-advantage-82d5074dde2d , posted a few years after the Rudder 2009 blog post, does largely support my suspicion regarding messaging rate differences between the genders. | /r/BlackPillScience | 24/04/18 09:31 PM |
| 3 | Looks ratings 101: Nearly all studies show a Cronbach's alpha > 0.80 for inter-rater reliability. What does this mean? Putting the neomancr hypothesis to the testThe procedural aspects you highlighted may or may not have contributed to the >0.9 alphas in those studies. A bit moot since inter-rater reliability coefficients for the studies in the sidebar that utilize them, such as Luo & Zhang (2009) (α = 0.86, predominantly female mixed-sex raters [in acknowledgements line of study]), are used to assess the quality of independent variables for predicting desirability. I.e., the estimates should be thought of more as a methodological hurdle to qualify a pre… | /r/BlackPillScience | 23/04/18 03:45 PM |
| 4 | Looks ratings 101: Nearly all studies show a Cronbach's alpha > 0.80 for inter-rater reliability. What does this mean? Putting the neomancr hypothesis to the testBrief opposite-sex rating examples: 0.93 for https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5648837/ with 22 female raters rating 47 Caucasian male faces on a 1–7 likert scale 0.91 for https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5290736 (Table S4) with 19 female raters rating facial photographs of 101 Caucasian men (with mean age ± SD = 20.8 ± 3.6 years, range = 17–35 years) on a 9-point scale Given the volume of attractiveness research out there, I'm sure you can distill more, but I'll leave tha… | /r/BlackPillScience | 21/04/18 07:20 PM |
| 3 | Looks ratings 101: Nearly all studies show a Cronbach's alpha > 0.80 for inter-rater reliability. What does this mean? Putting the neomancr hypothesis to the testYeh, but bigger time commitment and lolcow risk. Also, the videos would be pretty academic and not nearly as entertaining as FACEandLMS's. | /r/BlackPillScience | 21/04/18 06:59 PM |
| 2 | Looks ratings 101: Nearly all studies show a Cronbach's alpha > 0.80 for inter-rater reliability. What does this mean? Putting the neomancr hypothesis to the testCan't tell if you're trolling, but that's the whole point of the Cronbach's alpha estimate, although some studies also report a correlation coefficient. Studies generally do not release the full data, even in the supplemental materials, although usually authors don't mind sharing a deidentified version upon request. Are you asking what the reported alpha range is for women raters specifically? | /r/BlackPillScience | 20/04/18 03:30 AM |
| 10 | [Q4W] How would it feel if you were rejected for sex the majority of the time?When a man gets rejected by one, it may be damaging in terms of experiencing rejection, but it does not affect his pool of interest cuz theres so many other girls he is attracted to. What do you mean by this? What has been called the "abundance attitude"/"frame" by TRPers is a learned defensive cognitive behavioral strategy to help insulate the ego from repeated rejection. But repeated rejection does take a toll, although there's a spectrum of tolerance (largely driven by one's success/failure r… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 19/04/18 03:33 PM |
| 3 | People who don't openly declare a same-race preference, still behave as if they do (Hitsch, Hortaçsu, & Ariely, 2006)Fair, what's a blackpill and what isn't certainly depends on which side of the exclusion line you fall. It's a blackpill in the general sense of being an immutable physical trait that substantially structures your romantic/sexual opportunity landscape. Regarding lifestyle homogamy: Race, culture and socioeconomic status are intimately intertwined as a legacy of segregation in the US, but as Hitsch 2006 (re-)emphasized: Note that these results fully control for all other observable user attribute… | /r/BlackPillScience | 19/04/18 02:10 AM |
| 3 | Looks ratings 101: Nearly all studies show a Cronbach's alpha > 0.80 for inter-rater reliability. What does this mean? Putting the neomancr hypothesis to the testI unbanned him (and informed him) specifically to give him the opportunity to reply to this thread, given that I use his name in the title. Instead, he decided to sperg at me in Modmail late yesterday into this morning: threatening to "expose" me, accusing me of being corrupt, "spreading self replicating misery," etc. He then proceeded to continue to avoid this thread but instead hastily resumed sperging in the Okcupid thread by Pomodoro. Regarding your strawman about "data that shows that women… | /r/BlackPillScience | 17/04/18 05:11 PM |
| 4 | Despite what you may have heard, the Okcupid blog post, "Your Looks and Your Inbox," does show a substantial messaging premium for attractive males (Rudder, 2009)Banned this commenter for 30 days for Rule 2-3 violations after finding out he's a known troll who spergs at length about random gibberish. See https://www.reddit.com/r/BlackPillScience/comments/8blrj8/ok_cupid_studies_proving_how_women_have_much_more/dxd6dex/ for the abjectly frustrating dialogue that took place prior to this discussion for full context. The slopes (or, rather, the presumed Beta coefficients assessed via eyeballing) of the gender-stratified univariate analyses in OKcupid's anal… | /r/BlackPillScience | 15/04/18 04:04 PM |
| 2 | Despite what you may have heard, the Okcupid blog post, "Your Looks and Your Inbox," does show a substantial messaging premium for attractive males (Rudder, 2009)Oh, you're talking about the coefficients in the shitty univariate linear regressions Okcupid did without reporting any details on the data or the model output. Golden. Yeh, no, that's not how predictive power of a model is assessed. Try again | /r/BlackPillScience | 15/04/18 02:03 AM |
| 6 | Despite what you may have heard, the Okcupid blog post, "Your Looks and Your Inbox," does show a substantial messaging premium for attractive males (Rudder, 2009)Nope, it would only show less predictive value versus men which it does. As indicated by? How old are you? Do you have any stats or scientific background? You may be my first ban. I anticipated this sort of lay failtheorizing, hence Comment Rules 2-3 in the sidebar. But you continue to flagrantly ignore them. | /r/BlackPillScience | 15/04/18 01:50 AM |
| 5 | Despite what you may have heard, the Okcupid blog post, "Your Looks and Your Inbox," does show a substantial messaging premium for attractive males (Rudder, 2009)You very clearly do not understand the arguments I am making. I never said women have homogenous tastes. In fact, I very specifically indicated that they don't (hence my explicit denial of lookism determinism), but that nevertheless, a model that's insensitive to picking up subgroup heterogeneity because everything is averaged (e.g., a simple linear model) can still capture overall trends. Do you even know what a regression analysis/model is? I suggest you read up on it before replying further. … | /r/BlackPillScience | 15/04/18 01:07 AM |
| 1 | Study: Tattooing is associated with being lower in education, higher in risk-taking behavior like smoking, greater number of lifetime partners, and depression (men only)The crux of my post was more about questioning the behavioral and socioeconomic correlates of the inked demographic in the US -- given the study you linked was performed in Australia -- and less so about the pervasiveness of the stigma or whether or not it's "dominant". I don't need to cite any additional data. I'd argue you do, if your speculation that Gen Z is tattoo averse relies solely on how they're characterized politically. From the Harris poll : Political persuasion doesn’t seem to facto… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 13/04/18 07:32 PM |
| 1 | Study: Tattooing is associated with being lower in education, higher in risk-taking behavior like smoking, greater number of lifetime partners, and depression (men only)The Harris poll I cited for the ~50% number (47%) was conducted on October 14-19, 2015 and defined millennial as being 18-to-35-years-old. So it included some of what is now being referred to as Generation Z. Do you have any numbers to parse out the tattoo preferences of that particular demographic further? Probably right on the regrets part though (as suggested by the Harris poll). | /r/PurplePillDebate | 13/04/18 06:39 PM |
| 1 | Study: Tattooing is associated with being lower in education, higher in risk-taking behavior like smoking, greater number of lifetime partners, and depression (men only)Are you from Australia? Tattoos are 1.5 - 2x more common in the US, with 40-50% of millennials tattooed, suggesting these correlates may be weaker here. Nevertheless, a recent study showed evidence the stigma persists here as well, and may be stronger towards women (although the study had a very limited number of experimental stimuli, limiting its generalizability). | /r/PurplePillDebate | 13/04/18 05:36 PM |
| – | OK cupid studies proving how women have much more varied tastes than men. • r/BraincelsThis 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 attracti… | /r/BlackPillScience | 12/04/18 03:31 AM |
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