07-09-2016, 07:52 AM
(07-09-2016, 07:37 AM)eternitys_child Wrote: If you have enough of what she's looking for, the race factor won't play as strongly as you think.
And chaosvrgn, I know you make your judgment based on data from okcupid, but I don't think the way a woman thinks on a dating site is congruent with the way she thinks in a 1 on 1 interaction with a new guy she just met.
She HAS to make a selection, based on pre set parameters, in order to access the site and see her options. So the site gave her a bias before she even started browsing.
The book I cited, Dataclysm, goes into exactly what you're talking about. It focuses on the incongruities between what people say on their profiles, and how they actually act. For example, women saying they don't care about race, but only messaging members of their own race.
Or, the most enlightening of the dating related extractions (there's a dope ass section on how Twitter is affecting language), he points out that when rating people on a scale of 1-10, men tend to rate women very fairly, resulting in a perfect bell curve. Women, however, rate men as either a 1 or a 10 with absolutely nothing in-between. According to his data (which has been verified as mathematically and statistically sound), the majority of women believe that 80% of men aren't good enough for her (there's that Pareto principle again) and yet, she STILL messages them.
There's a lot more at play here.