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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, the charts don't mean what people think they mean --

This was originally posted on Reddit. Here is the discussion: "Okay this is interesting. From the data's source article:

Women pursue men they consider worse looking than themselves. This means women don’t necessarily pursue their so-called “looks match”. This is in line with data from old-school dating website hotornot.com, where researchers found that “female members were significantly less influenced by the consensus physical attractiveness of their potential dates than male members were”. Meanwhile, the story for men is completely different.

[b]Men pursue women significantly more beautiful than themselves. [/b]Perhaps this seems obvious, Given the widely reported finding that males focus more on physical attractiveness in mate selection than females do. Aslo, men are much less influenced by their own desirability. For instance, one study found that “men’s self-worth was not related to the popularity of the women they contacted”

Which is actually the opposite of the argument many people will take from the comparative attractiveness chart. The argument I have seen before is that the difference in ratings means women's standards are too high."
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But the bolded is possible because there are more women who are significantly more attractive than men than vice versa. Women take better care of themselves and put more effort into their looks so men have many women who more attractive than the men are  to pursue.

While women date men less attractive than themselves, that steep drop off in the curve is a little too much. Women would rather be single.[/quote]

This must all be self reported or just perception because I'm not seeing a bunch of seriously mismatched couples anywhere in real life.[/quote]

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