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Three Six Mafia: A silly look at the value of an inch downstairs

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Re: Three Six Mafia: A silly look at the value of an inch downstairs

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post #8

I've always thought a website with sliders for mate preferences would be really helpful for folks. I get that it could get really complicated to do correctly, but even a fast and dirty version could be really interesting. Perhaps, it might even encourage people to be interested in math.

OKCupid had tons of controls and questions to optimize match making. Then Tinder came along with "swipe left, swipe right" and completely changed the industry.

Re: Three Six Mafia: A silly look at the value of an inch downstairs

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This article was fun, and I enjoyed it.

Unfortunately (through no fault of the author's own) this dovetails with incel doctrine which tends to state that the dating game is unfairly rigged because only the top N% of men (in terms of body, income, whatever) have any chance whatsoever with women.

Re: Three Six Mafia: A silly look at the value of an inch downstairs

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post #14

The absolute redeeming factor in this is the unrelenting drilling down into how to interpret stats. If it weren't for the subject matter it would be a good introduction for statistics education.

Haha thanks, was a lot of fun
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