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Three Six Mafia – Data about "6/6/6 dating" (2024)

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Re: Three Six Mafia – Data about "6/6/6 dating" (2024)

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Post by quickthrowman »

rhrhfjfjjr44 wrote: post #70
hackyhacky wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The answer is "evolved intuition", like it or not. Maybe. A lot of what we assume are innate sexual preferences are actually determined socially. No one was talking about "body count" (at least not publicly) ten years ago. These days, a full-figure on a woman is considered attractive, but in the 1990s, being skinny was in vogue. Insofar as an attractive partner is a status symbol, the definition of "attractive" cha…

>No one was talking about "body count" (at least not publicly) ten years ago. Why do you think that is? Our great grandfathers were practically guaranteed to be marrying virgins, while today's young men seem to consider themselves lucky if their girl is still in single figures. Things have changed, people are talking about it.

> Our great grandfathers were practically guaranteed to be marrying virgins

Lol yeah, and fetishes were invented in the 1950s. Very few people in history made it to marriage as virgins.

Re: Three Six Mafia – Data about "6/6/6 dating" (2024)

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Post by red-iron-pine »

hackyhacky wrote: post #41
vovavili wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's the male equivalent of women asking why men care about boobs and body count. The answer is "evolved intuition", like it or not.

> The answer is "evolved intuition", like it or not. Maybe. A lot of what we assume are innate sexual preferences are actually determined socially. No one was talking about "body count" (at least not publicly) ten years ago. These days, a full-figure on a woman is considered attractive, but in the 1990s, being skinny was in vogue. Insofar as an attractive partner is a status symbol, the definition of "attractive" cha…

body count was definitely a topic in the early 2000s

Re: Three Six Mafia – Data about "6/6/6 dating" (2024)

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Post by numbers_guy »

ChoGGi wrote: post #73

I worked with a short, partially bald guy, but he could charm the socks off any girl. Pretty sure; he didn't care a wit for 6/6/6.

I worked with a many short men, some of them bald. I mean, STEM, tech, hello, tends to be a big chunk of the demographic. They consistently underperformed when it came to charming women. Tall nerds tended to swoop up the few women on campus.

Re: Three Six Mafia – Data about "6/6/6 dating" (2024)

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Post by nixon_why69 »

rhrhfjfjjr44 wrote: post #78
nixon_why69 wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since I'm feeling generous, the words you missed are "fun and confident". One could expand to "comfortable and happy in one's skin", very much not a synonym for cockiness which is prickly and challenging. You can't fake it, it comes and goes for all of us. OPs friend got laid a lot despite "traditional" defects because of wholesome, fun confidence.

And you don't think the tall, rich, well-endowed man is more likely to be a little more confident than the short, poor micro-penised man? Put "I'm fun and confident" in your dating profile and I'll put "6'4"" and we'll see how that pans out. You won't be having much fun and your confidence will be shot.

BEING fun and confident matters. Saying you are is, well, not fun or confident.

A friend of mine, well below 6 feet, once had a dating profile where he went into a weird tangent about loving mac and cheese. A weird, sexual and hilarious tangent, where he started arguing with you, the reader, about why are we still talking about this? I said I never had sex with a bowl of mac and cheese! It was classic and he got a ton of dates from it.

Admittedly online dating sucks and my friend there could have been a comedy writer in another life. It's hard to stand out. But in person? It doesn't matter how many dates your profile did or didn't get, you must be fun and comfortable in your own skin, why spend time with someone who isn't both of those things?

Re: Three Six Mafia – Data about "6/6/6 dating" (2024)

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Post by red-iron-pine »

askl wrote: post #17
bawana wrote: post #9

How does a >2 year old article get necroed to the top on HN?

Maybe by being something different than the regular slop on the HN front page. And just being a high quality article in general.

it's nice to take a break from the AI slop to talk about tech bro insecurity

Re: Three Six Mafia – Data about "6/6/6 dating" (2024)

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Post by swolios »

codedokode wrote: post #36

I am curious why is height important? Understandably, income affects the lifestyle and opportunities, but what does height affect? What changes if you are several inch taller or shorter? I cannot understand. Also, why those who care about height so much do not go for basketball players? Also, the picture with income graph says "household income", not "personal income".

because in nature a bigger male = stronger and better to protect me...

Re: Three Six Mafia – Data about "6/6/6 dating" (2024)

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Post by ClikeX »

isoprophlex wrote: post #69
throwawayffffas wrote: post #49

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Buuut it's from 2014, and in case you didn't notice there was quite a bit of inflation between 2014 and now. Back in 2014 the share of household incomes earning more than 99,999 was 34.5 in 2024 it was 42.8

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There's a fetish joke just hiding here.

Re: Three Six Mafia – Data about "6/6/6 dating" (2024)

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Post by numbers_guy »

thrownawaysz wrote: post #22
panny wrote: post #3

These numbers seem based on global distributions rather than local ones. After all, six feet is just average height in the Netherlands. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/average-h... Maybe that's what the rule tells you. Ladies love the north Europeans.

I'd never call someone from the Netherlands north European, it's western Europe

I'd group the Dutch with the Scandinavians as the "other Germanic branches", possibly also including the UK. As a taxonomy it makes far more sense to me. Western Europe is too broad. You have the French and the Portugese and the Spanish which are all quite different.

Re: Three Six Mafia – Data about "6/6/6 dating" (2024)

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Post by economistbob »

throwawayffffas wrote: post #49
operation_moose wrote: post #20

Also of note the income data is combined household income (2 incomes for a married couple) and over the entire population (including 40+ later-career incomes). It's likely significantly over predicting how common $100k yearly income is among the 20-35 year old "dating pool". Though probably balanced out some by being 10 year old data by now.

Buuut it's from 2014, and in case you didn't notice there was quite a bit of inflation between 2014 and now. Back in 2014 the share of household incomes earning more than 99,999 was 34.5 in 2024 it was 42.8

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