This link is for totoro after we had a conversation about a study he read that put an actual dollar amount of how much money a person would have to make in order to overcome certain less desirable traits (like being less attractive) when doing online dating. This study uses speed dating to find out dating preferences. Interestingly, they
"found no evidence of the stereotype of a white male preference for East Asian women. However, we also found that East Asian women did not discriminate against white men (only against black and Hispanic men). As a result, the white man-Asian woman pairing was the most common form of interracial dating—but because of the women's neutrality, not the men's pronounced preference."
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Haha yeah this is pretty similar to the study that I read, except this one was based on a speed dating dataset and the other was based on some kind of online dating site. I like the experimental setup on this, seems like a decent way of judging first impressions.
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