Results from a fascinating study of Tinder users:
Women are much pickier than men:
"male subjects liked 61.9% of female profiles, female subjects liked only 4.5% of male profies."
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Men also showed no evidence of being "intimidated" by women with higher education.
"Our unique experimental design allowed us to examine the causal effect of education on actual, revealed (instead of stated) mate preferences in a dating market without substantial search frictions and social frictions. Based on a sample of 3600 Tinder profile evaluations, we found that education level matters only substantially when female Tinder users evaluate male Tinder profiles, and not vice versa. This finding is in line with previous literature from multiple fields that found that women have a higher preference for a highly educated partner who in turn has a higher earnings potential. Additionally, in contrast to earlier studies from the field of economics we found no evidence that men are intimidated by highly educated – and therefore potentially high-earning – women. "
Women are much pickier than men:
"male subjects liked 61.9% of female profiles, female subjects liked only 4.5% of male profies."
...
Men also showed no evidence of being "intimidated" by women with higher education.
"Our unique experimental design allowed us to examine the causal effect of education on actual, revealed (instead of stated) mate preferences in a dating market without substantial search frictions and social frictions. Based on a sample of 3600 Tinder profile evaluations, we found that education level matters only substantially when female Tinder users evaluate male Tinder profiles, and not vice versa. This finding is in line with previous literature from multiple fields that found that women have a higher preference for a highly educated partner who in turn has a higher earnings potential. Additionally, in contrast to earlier studies from the field of economics we found no evidence that men are intimidated by highly educated – and therefore potentially high-earning – women. "