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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; Benedixen, 2019) 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 suggests that male OkCupid users are likely not less attractive that other men. This point is further supported by an experiment conducted by Rudder in which he let male users rate one another and where the distribution of ratings did not show the skew towards the bottom end one can observe in ratings by women (see the interview linked above). | 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; Benedixen, 2019) 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 suggests that male OkCupid users are likely not less attractive that other men. This point is further supported by an experiment conducted by Rudder in which he let male users rate one another and where the distribution of ratings did not show the skew towards the bottom end one can observe in ratings by women (see the interview linked above). | ||
OkCupid also found that women receive 8 times as many messages per week as men. In the second graph below one can see that this holds true across all percentiles of looks, | OkCupid also found that women receive 8 times as many messages per week as men. In the second graph below one can see that this holds true across all percentiles of looks. The slopes suggest that both men and women care roughly to the same extent about looks, but women are overall much less active. | ||
<span style="font-size:125%">'''Data:'''</span> | <span style="font-size:125%">'''Data:'''</span> | ||