Trusted, Automoderated users
17,538
edits
Hypergamy: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
→80/20 Rule
| Line 109: | Line 109: | ||
[[File:okcupid.png|thumb|right|<center>Women rate 80% of men as below the average of all men, source: Okcupid</center>]] | [[File:okcupid.png|thumb|right|<center>Women rate 80% of men as below the average of all men, source: Okcupid</center>]] | ||
[[File:again.png|thumb|right|<center></center>]] | [[File:again.png|thumb|right|<center></center>]] | ||
The 80/20 rule, or "Pareto Principle", comes from economics and refers to the observation that inequality often approaches a distribution where the 20% richest own 80% of the wealth. In case of the sexual market, wealth | The 80/20 rule, or "Pareto Principle", comes from economics and refers to the observation that inequality often approaches a distribution where the 20% richest own 80% of the wealth. In case of the sexual market, wealth means the number of sex partners. | ||
It is important to remember that Pareto was a lunatic who genuinely believed that his laws proved that social darwinism<ref>http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue80/Flomenhoft80.pdf</ref> was necessary to "eliminate" undesirables ("toxins").<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=zg91TAIs6bgC&pg=PA155&lpg=PA155&dq=%22which+will+promptly+perish+if+prevented+from+eliminating+toxins%22&source=bl&ots=YmuWBObJGH&sig=ACfU3U2H_NqwX07WqcH7n-UTnQc74Pk_gw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiL0YLa2tHlAhVNmVkKHUjcBqYQ6AEwDnoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22which%20will%20promptly%20perish%20if%20prevented%20from%20eliminating%20toxins%22&f=false</ref> None of his laws have been proven as unchanging or inevitable. In other words, the "80/20" rule is a certain model of how inequality can manifest, but it does not prove that things will always be as severely unequal. Some economists, take less extreme positions and merely use such models to argue that some inequality is inevitable.<ref>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-inequality-inevitable/</ref> | It is important to remember that Pareto was a lunatic who genuinely believed that his laws proved that social darwinism<ref>http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue80/Flomenhoft80.pdf</ref> was necessary to "eliminate" undesirables ("toxins").<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=zg91TAIs6bgC&pg=PA155&lpg=PA155&dq=%22which+will+promptly+perish+if+prevented+from+eliminating+toxins%22&source=bl&ots=YmuWBObJGH&sig=ACfU3U2H_NqwX07WqcH7n-UTnQc74Pk_gw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiL0YLa2tHlAhVNmVkKHUjcBqYQ6AEwDnoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22which%20will%20promptly%20perish%20if%20prevented%20from%20eliminating%20toxins%22&f=false</ref> None of his laws have been proven as unchanging or inevitable. In other words, the "80/20" rule is a certain model of how inequality can manifest, but it does not prove that things will always be as severely unequal. Some economists, take less extreme positions and merely use such models to argue that some inequality is inevitable.<ref>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-inequality-inevitable/</ref> | ||
| Line 116: | Line 116: | ||
An internal OkCupid study from 2009 revealed that women irrationally evaluate 80% of men, brave enough to show their mug on a public website, ''as below medium'' (below 5/10).<ref>http://archive.is/489UV</ref> | An internal OkCupid study from 2009 revealed that women irrationally evaluate 80% of men, brave enough to show their mug on a public website, ''as below medium'' (below 5/10).<ref>http://archive.is/489UV</ref> | ||
Many people mistook this as evidence of 80/20 in the sex market, but the 80 figure is just coincidental, and it | Many people mistook this as evidence of 80/20 in the sex market, but the 80 figure is just coincidental, and it actually is only evidence of female choosiness and coyness without information how look ratings convert into sexual success. OkCupid deleted this study after the [[Alek Minassian]] attack, which some incels understood as attempt to hide or downplay substantial inequalities in the sexual market, and hence evidence of their existence. | ||
<!-- NOTE & TODO: i've read critiques of this analysis as it makes some pretty vague guesses on very small sample size. There are better statistics from Bumble and Hinge | <!-- NOTE & TODO: i've read critiques of this analysis as it makes some pretty vague guesses on very small sample size. There are better statistics from Bumble and Hinge | ||
In the most popular [[dating]] app Tinder, a mating analyst found out that “the bottom 80% of men are fighting over the bottom 22% of women and the top 78% of women are fighting over the top 20% of men".<ref>https://medium.com/@worstonlinedater/tinder-experiments-ii-guys-unless-you-are-really-hot-you-are-probably-better-off-not-wasting-your-2ddf370a6e9a</ref> Because women are [[sexual gatekeeper]]s their preferences decide the [[dating]] scene.--> | In the most popular [[dating]] app Tinder, a mating analyst found out that “the bottom 80% of men are fighting over the bottom 22% of women and the top 78% of women are fighting over the top 20% of men".<ref>https://medium.com/@worstonlinedater/tinder-experiments-ii-guys-unless-you-are-really-hot-you-are-probably-better-off-not-wasting-your-2ddf370a6e9a</ref> Because women are [[sexual gatekeeper]]s their preferences decide the [[dating]] scene.--> | ||