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Dating site OK Cupid released data through their blog about the relative distribution of men's vs. women's ratings of the opposite gender. They found that while men rated women on a very even bell curve distribution, women rated 80% of men as below average (<5/10). This data was further analyzed for the book Dataclysm by OK Cupid founder Christian Rudder, providing a more detailed graphing of the original data, demonstrated below, calibrated to a 0-10/10 rating scale. Christian Rudder expounded on his findings in an interview in 2014, available [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_islsqquXAo&feature=youtu.be&t=2161 here]. | Dating site OK Cupid released data through their blog about the relative distribution of men's vs. women's ratings of the opposite gender. They found that while men rated women on a very even bell curve distribution, women rated 80% of men as below average (<5/10). This data was further analyzed for the book Dataclysm by OK Cupid founder Christian Rudder, providing a more detailed graphing of the original data, demonstrated below, calibrated to a 0-10/10 rating scale. Christian Rudder expounded on his findings in an interview in 2014, available [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_islsqquXAo&feature=youtu.be&t=2161 here]. | ||
Sex differences in attractiveness ratings of similar magnitude have been also found in other contexts but online dating, e.g. students rating photos of celebrities (Marshall & Wasserman, 1997), students rating one another in person (Birnbaum, 2014) and students rating photos from an online dating website (Wood, 2009). The effect may be partly explained by women putting more effort in their appearance, but women are also evaluated more favorably regarding all sorts of traits besides physical appearance, an effect known as the ''"women are wonderful effect"'' (Eagly, 1991). This demonstrates that the men in the OK Cupid study were likely not any less attractive than men who do not use online dating (a point asserted by Rudder himself), and also that women are similarly strictly discerning, in regards to their evaluation of male looks even outside of the confined context of online dating. | Sex differences in attractiveness ratings of similar magnitude (around d = 1.0) have been also found in other contexts but online dating, e.g. students rating photos of celebrities (Marshall & Wasserman, 1997), students rating one another in person (Birnbaum, 2014) and students rating photos from an online dating website (Wood, 2009). The effect may be partly explained by women putting more effort in their appearance, but women are also evaluated more favorably regarding all sorts of traits besides physical appearance, an effect known as the ''"women are wonderful effect"'' (Eagly, 1991). This demonstrates that the men in the OK Cupid study were likely not any less attractive than men who do not use online dating (a point asserted by Rudder himself), and also that women are similarly strictly discerning, in regards to their evaluation of male looks even outside of the confined context of online dating. | ||
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