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The approached their research by first having candidates fill out questionnaires on what they felt was most important in a relationship. They then ran a 2 hour speed dating event where individuals had to choose afterwards who they wanted to see again. They were given the opportunity to start messaging any matches. They subsequently filled out a post dating questionnaire evaluating their opinions of their various matches. | The approached their research by first having candidates fill out questionnaires on what they felt was most important in a relationship. They then ran a 2 hour speed dating event where individuals had to choose afterwards who they wanted to see again. They were given the opportunity to start messaging any matches. They subsequently filled out a post dating questionnaire evaluating their opinions of their various matches. | ||
Researchers then used follow up studies to assess who actually initiated a relationship and the correlations for physical attractiveness, wealth, and personality in predicting those relationships. | |||
They found that men and women both underestimated the importance of physical attractiveness, but women far more so. | |||
Men and Women's pre-dating assessments of important of looks, money, and personality out of 10. | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
! style="font-size:100%; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;;" | | |||
! style="font-size:100%; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;;" | Men | |||
! style="font-size:100%; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;;" | Women | |||
|- | |||
| style="font-size:100%; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;;" | Physical Attractiveness | |||
| style="font-size:100%; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;;" | 8.04 | |||
| style="font-size:100%; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;;" | 7.18 | |||
|- | |||
| style="font-size:100%; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;;" | Personality | |||
| style="font-size:100%; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;;" | 8.1 | |||
| style="font-size:100%; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;;" | 8.1 | |||
|- | |||
| style="font-size:100%; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;;" | Wealth | |||
| style="font-size:100%; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;;" | 6.91 | |||
| style="font-size:100%; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;;" | 7.73 | |||
|} | |||
How much looks, personality, and money actually correlated with relationship success for each gender, showing it is Looks > Personality > Money for both genders. | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
! style="font-size:100%; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;;" | | |||
! style="font-size:100%; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;;" | Men | |||
! style="font-size:100%; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;;" | Women | |||
|- | |||
| style="font-size:100%; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;;" | Physical Attractiveness | |||
| style="font-size:100%; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;;" | 0.43 | |||
| style="font-size:100%; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;;" | 0.46 | |||
|- | |||
| style="font-size:100%; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;;" | Personality | |||
| style="font-size:100%; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;;" | 0.29 | |||
| style="font-size:100%; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;;" | 0.32 | |||
|- | |||
| style="font-size:100%; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;;" | Wealth | |||
| style="font-size:100%; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;;" | 0.19 | |||
| style="font-size:100%; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;;" | 0.16 | |||
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