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Ibrahim SowunmI's avatar

This further confirms a ton of thoughts I already had. There’s a widening date-ability gap between men and women. Not quite yet a crisis, but it’s certainly worrying. Large groups of lonely, horny and increasingly— angry men are dangerous.

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Dan Kras's avatar

Hey Ibrahim. Thanks for the comment. I was curious: what in this article suggests a widening date-ability gap? Or that men are increasingly angry / dangerous?

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Ibrahim SowunmI's avatar

Nothing in this piece explicitly, as I said they were thoughts I already had brewing.

https://thezvi.substack.com/p/dating-roundup-1-this-is-why-youre?r=1nw9rd&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

This is something that touches on the date ability. Places with large gender gaps are higher on SA from memory. In the UK for instance theres a rise in SA but a great decrease in total crime.

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Malmesbury's avatar

What is the age distribution like for this sample?

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Dan Kras's avatar

- range was 18 - 81

- median woman was 31

- median man was 32

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Kent's avatar

I feel like 72% of men actually *are* below average in looks ... including me

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Sebastian's avatar

The average is defined by being the 50th percentile, so this is an oxymoron. Or do you mean including women? That would be a pretty subjective comparison, though.

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Kent's avatar

well the median is the 50th percentile not the average.

somehow 72% of men are below the median in looks also. it's impossible and yet somehow also true. just look at us.

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Dan Kras's avatar

Hey Kent / Sebastian, I recommend reading this article: https://datepsychology.com/is-physical-attractiveness-normally-distributed/

(there's no law of physics that suggests everything must be normally distributed)

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Sebastian's avatar

You are right, I was being brain-afk there :-)

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E Dincer's avatar

what is the distribution of people with regards to income and outcome of 8-minute session?

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Dan Kras's avatar

Would be interesting to see if there was an effect. You could use the data here https://github.com/dankras/mixmosa-anonymized-data for an answer.

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