Dude, She’s (Exactly 25 Percent) Out of Your League
40 points by curiouscat321 6 years ago | 9 comments- ggggtez 6 years agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_marriage_problem
Though, in this case, "marriage" is more of a mathematical construct, but the math matches the result here.
- copperx 6 years agoI would love to see the stats of San Francisco, or at least the Bay Area in general.
- turtlecloud 6 years agoIt’s a sausage fest here lol
- turtlecloud 6 years ago
- phakding 6 years agoTFA doesn't mention the race, but if I remember correctly from the okcupid article, race affects the dating way more compared to everything else.
- mrep 6 years agoYes it does:
White men and Asian women are consistently more desired than other users, while black women rank anomalously lower.
Bruch said that race and gender stereotypes often get mixed up, with a race acquiring gendered connotations. “Asian is coded as female, so that’s why Asian women get so much market power and Asian men get so little,” she told me. “For black men and women, it’s the opposite.”
But “what we are seeing is overwhelmingly the effect of white preferences,” she cautioned. “This is site is predominantly white, 70 percent white. If this was a site that was 20 percent white, we may see a totally different desirability hierarchy.”
- burfog 6 years agoThat last bit is just wrong. OKCupid did the full analysis, showing how each race preferred each of the other races, for both males and females. Nothing much changes.
The comment that "race and gender stereotypes often get mixed up, with a race acquiring gendered connotations" is interesting. Unfortunately, it implies that this is merely cultural viewpoint, but consider an actual trait: ability to grow a thick beard. Consider another: height. Height is particularly easy to demonstrate. One can simply look up average height by sex and by race.
- cambalache 6 years agoSo the other 30% non-white display different preferences? If it is true why not share and analyze that piece of information.
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- zajd 6 years agoWhat does TFA stand for? Also the article does mention race fwiw
> Across the four cities and the thousands of users, consistent patterns around age, race, and education level emerge. White men and Asian women are consistently more desired than other users, while black women rank anomalously lower.
- detaro 6 years agoThe Fine (or other F-word of your imagination) Article
- detaro 6 years ago
- mrep 6 years ago
- stevespang 6 years agoShe may be 25% out of my league. At 64, I can out swim 98% of women younger than me both in time and distance. I have had friends tell me I have 30x the financial assets that women my junior have. In today's society, a female's physical attributes of beauty are often declining assets. It all depends on your point of view.