What Makes You Click? Mate Preferences and Matching Outcomes in Online Dating (beautiful, attraction)

[sierraAZ]

Since many of you loooove stats, here are all the stats you ever wanted to know - height, weight, age, ethnicity... everything under the Sun!

SSRN-What Makes You Click? Mate Preferences and Matching Outcomes in Online Dating by Guenter Hitsch, Ali Hortacsu, Dan Ariely

The pdf doesn't have its own address, so you have to download it yourselves.

[BLAZER PROPHET]

It's not about stats- it's about magic.

[SifuPhil]

I agree with the paper that -

vW(w) = max M[{w}{UW(w,m)|UM(m,w)¸vM(m)}

-signifies the apex of my online dating experiences.

[sierraAZ]

Hey, there are constantly questions about those things, so I figured there's need for some formulas. Excuse me for being helpful.

[Ivorytickler]

Originally Posted by sierraAZ

Hey, there are constantly questions about those things, so I figured there's need for some formulas. Excuse me for being helpful.

Actually, given that this is all really about continuation of the race, I won't be surprised if it does reduce to a formula like it reduces to the display on a peacocks feathers for peacocks.

We already know that what we find beautiful in people has to do with symmetry which is an indication your genetic structure has not been damaged by the environment. So either A. you have good genes that don't damage easily (the preferred case) or B. you haven't been exposed ot things that will damage your genes.

Turns out no matter what the race, physical beauty is related to symmetry in features.

Attraction is interesting stuff.