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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This was so interesting:

[img]https://preview.redd.it/exploring-how-men-and-women-perceive-each-others-v0-erxhaqu289hc1.png?auto=webp&s=d624348039855c94a5a886247842725d6fa11347[/img]

So apparently women think all men are ugly.  A thoroughly mid looking woman who rates only a 4-5 is probably looking for a man who is 6-7, which is basically an entire standard deviation or more away from the mean for how women are rating looks for men.

It seems like men evaluate the looks of women much more fairly given that the mean is about a 4/10, which should be expected (5/10).  Women seem to have insane expectations for how their partners should look. I guess if you aren't Henry Cavill you're an instant 1 or 2.  Modern dating cultures and apps have ruined all expectations, no doubt. 
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It’s an interesting and curious finding of course, and there is probably something to it, but my understanding is that this sort of data tends to be generated by reviewing pictures and rating them (I mean, no one is having women or men look at police lineups of people and rate their attractiveness I don’t think), and I suspect the best explanation for this is that pictures miss more of the aspects that women find attractive than for men.  And truthfully a lot of attraction has always seemed more chemistry-based to me anyway — I’ve certainly had the experience of being intensely attracted to people who aren’t objectively nearly as hot as I felt they were. What this really gets to, I think, is that a lot of people are missing the chance to meet people they might find hot in person because so much of dating is not mediated through apps that, while useful in some ways, by there nature miss all sorts of things too. [/quote]

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