Speed dating and Assortative Mating

[differenceblog]

According to Wikipedia, "Speed Dating" was introduced in 1998, and by 2000 had gained national recognition, partially thanks to an episode of Sex in the City wherein a successful lawyer pretends to be an airline stewardess to stop scaring away potential dates. The repetitive format of speed-dating made it a natural choice for the study of mating

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[camilla_anna]

An interesting set of notes. Of course, it leaves out that different people find different things attractive. One man may prefer the chubby women who are allegedly less attractive. A woman may prefer big fat bald guys, or skinny little guys.

[differenceblog]

I know that in the Todd study, they used independent raters and BMI (body mass index) as a externally valid definition of attractiveness. They also checked against "self-rated" attractiveness -- for example, the three women who thought they were too good for everyone at the event were >1 SD higher than mean on "externally rated" attractiveness, and 1.5 SDs higher on "self-rated" attractiveness.

Which leads me to say, honey, you ain't all that.

[goteam]

I wonder how many evolutionary psychologists are wealthy, somewhat-funny-looking men.

Oh. snap. I am so gonna quote that.