Men Are Easy
Some data from OKcupid: @9 min: 26 million matches per day on Tinder. Male preferences easy to predict, females more complex! Linear vs Multivariate Nonlinear preferences? Calling Geoffrey Miller … Tweet
Tag Archives: dating
Do women on OkCupid follow the Standard Creepiness Rule?
It seems that there’s an XKCD comic for every life situation that we run in to. One of my favorites, by far, is the comic titled “Dating pools.” This comic highlighted the Standard Creepiness Rule, a.k.a. the “half-your-age-plus-seven” rule, which states that no person should date someone under (age / 2 + 7), otherwise they …
Directional Personality and mate preferences
Some good old evo psych fun — guaranteed to annoy certain people :-) Nevertheless, interesting because it raises the point that measurements of Personality (e.g., Big 5 or other constructs) are complicated by the fact that people can behave differently depending on the target of the behavior. Plenty of sociopaths in large organizations are pleasant …