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=== Looks may not be everything === | === Looks may not be everything === | ||
That being said about the importance of looks, there exists some anecdotal evidence that many incels are not particularly ugly, with some even being physically attractive. There may be a selection bias here insofar as only the better looking incels are expected to expose themself to public scrutiny by posting images of themselves on the internet.<ref | [[File:OkCupid_Female_Incoming_Messages_by_Attractiveness.png|right|300px|thumb|Attractiveness vs incoming messages from OkCupid. The distribution for men likely looks similar, but with men receiving 6-7 times fewer messages. [[Scientific Blackpill#Mental_disorders_significantly_reduce_male_fertility.2C_substantially_more_than_they_do_for_women|More information]].]] | ||
That being said about the importance of looks, there exists some anecdotal evidence that many incels are not particularly ugly, with some even being physically attractive.<ref name="ref159">https://incels.wiki/w/Demographics_of_inceldom#Germany</ref> There may be a selection bias here insofar as only the better looking incels are expected to expose themself to public scrutiny by posting images of themselves on the internet. | |||
Correlations between looks, height, income, masculinity and sex partner count are, however, only weak,<ref>https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-006-9075-x</ref><ref>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1474704915604563</ref><ref>https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13504851.2011.587758</ref><ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Across_91_studies.2C_bodily_masculinity_was_predictive_of_men.27s_mating_and_reproductive_success</ref> meaning looks are unlikely to explain most inceldom except, perhaps, for extremely unattractive individuals. | |||
Still, looks likely make life easier and open doors. Correlations regarding looks and ''copulation opportunities'' are much higher than for partner counts. E.g. on OkCupid, rated attractiveness and incoming messages were correlated at around r = .5 (see graph on the right). | |||
It should also be noted that men are seemingly bad at accurately judging the own looks.<ref>http://doi.org/10.2307/3033724</ref><ref>https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/sjop.12631</ref> [[Demographics of inceldom]] suggest that there is a trend toward less sex for both men and women have less sex, which is accompanied by a trend towards later marriage, i.e. less strictly enforced monogamy. | |||
In a study of Reddit users answering why they are single (not necessarily incels) on AskReddit, most answered they were physically unattractive, with about half as many mentioning obesity (see [[causes of inceldom]]).<ref>https://doi.org/10.1007/s40806-018-0163-7</ref> Looks were also after shyness (i.e. [[dominance hierarchy|low status]]), mentioned as the second common barrier in the [[Donnelly study]] with 47% of virgins and 56% of singles mentioning this factor, compared to only 9% of partnered people, however with a small sample size. | In a study of Reddit users answering why they are single (not necessarily incels) on AskReddit, most answered they were physically unattractive, with about half as many mentioning obesity (see [[causes of inceldom]]).<ref>https://doi.org/10.1007/s40806-018-0163-7</ref> Looks were also after shyness (i.e. [[dominance hierarchy|low status]]), mentioned as the second common barrier in the [[Donnelly study]] with 47% of virgins and 56% of singles mentioning this factor, compared to only 9% of partnered people, however with a small sample size. | ||
=== Matching hypothesis === | === Matching hypothesis === | ||