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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:37:25 -0800
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- From: Tor Neilands <tbn@UTXVM.CC.UTEXAS.EDU>
- Subject: Re: the matching hypothesis
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- Michael Saxon writes:
-
- >This intuitively makes sense to me because I would expect that individuals
- >either don't ask out, or are intimidated by, people who are more attractive
- >than they are (ceteris paribus). On the other hand, people probably don't
- >want to go out with people they perceive as being "uglier" than themselves.
- >Whaddya think?
- >
- >Michael Saxon
- >University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana
-
- My recollection of the original results was that everyone wanted to go out
- with the most beautiful people, but everyone wound up with dates of their
- attractiveness level. I can't recall whether everyone wanted to go out with
- the most beautiful folks and didn't ask them, but instead asked people at
- their own level, or whether they asked the beautiful people and, after
- being rejected by the upper crust, turned to others of more average level
- to ask out (or both).
-
- Then there's the whole issue of what people do in everyday life, but I
- won't touch that one just yet!
-
- cheers,
-
- Tor
-
- Tor Neilands Computation Center
- Systems Analyst University of Texas at Austin
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