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→Men like 61.9% of female profiles, women like only 4.5% of male profiles
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To ensure the pictures they used for the profiles were similar in attractiveness, they scored 32 (16 male, 16 female) pictures on Amazon Mechanical Turk and selected 8 pictures (4 male, 4 female) that 493 workers on MTurk judged to be similar in level of attractiveness. Then to ensure an even more fair evaluation, they attached to each picture three different education levels in three different cities. | To ensure the pictures they used for the profiles were similar in attractiveness, they scored 32 (16 male, 16 female) pictures on Amazon Mechanical Turk and selected 8 pictures (4 male, 4 female) that 493 workers on MTurk judged to be similar in level of attractiveness. Then to ensure an even more fair evaluation, they attached to each picture three different education levels in three different cities. | ||
They swiped to like 150 times for each profile, then collected data. Overall, men liked or superliked 61.9% of their female profiles. On the other hand, women only liked 4.5% of the male profiles, a sex ratio that is | They swiped to like 150 times for each profile, then collected data. Overall, men liked or superliked 61.9% of their female profiles. On the other hand, women only liked 4.5% of the male profiles, a sex ratio that is fairly close to the sex ratio in agreement to unsolicited invitations to sex in non-online naturalistic settings (e.g. Tappé 2013; Maticka-Tyndale 2010). Men started a conversation with the female profiles 42.3% of the time, while women only initiated conversations 6.2% with the male profiles. | ||
They found "evidence for [[hypergamy]]" which they report matched findings from other online dating studies. This hypergamy was exclusively mediated through women's preference for highly educated men. They also found that contrary to the popular notion that men are "intimidated" by highly educated women, a woman's education level did not significantly change a man's swiping behavior. There was no tendency overall for Tinder users to follow educationally assortative mating patterns, as similarly educated people were not more likely to match. There was however a tendency for users of both sexes to like the profiles of users with lower educational levels then themselves less often, with this tendency being far more apparent among female users then male users (10.1% less likely for males vs 45.4% less likely for females.) | They found "evidence for [[hypergamy]]" which they report matched findings from other online dating studies. This hypergamy was exclusively mediated through women's preference for highly educated men. They also found that contrary to the popular notion that men are "intimidated" by highly educated women, a woman's education level did not significantly change a man's swiping behavior. There was no tendency overall for Tinder users to follow educationally assortative mating patterns, as similarly educated people were not more likely to match. There was however a tendency for users of both sexes to like the profiles of users with lower educational levels then themselves less often, with this tendency being far more apparent among female users then male users (10.1% less likely for males vs 45.4% less likely for females.) | ||