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> Just as most of the new income generated by later periods of economic liberalization go to the top 20%, so it is with the sexual market.

I don't even know what this means. What is "the new income" in "the sexual market"? What is "the top 20%" ? How does "income" "go to" any particular percentile in "the sexual market" ?

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OP means that the top 20% of men are getting all of the attention in the dating market. it's a well known fact at this point. i think the numbers largely come from dating apps but they reflect real life pretty well (from my anecdotal experience)

OKCupid used to have a post of sort of barebones statistical analysis of what men considered "average" versus women's outlook. It was ... enlightening.

That's a classic post from their defunct blog. Another one is Black women and Asian men are the least messaged.

This would imply that the "bottom" 80% of men are not finding partners. When we look around at the world, either anecdotally or statistically, do we see 80% of men without partners? Not even close.

It seems about right if you are talking about dating apps.

- https://techcrunch.com/2009/11/18/okcupid-inbox-attractive/ - https://quillette.com/2019/03/12/attraction-inequality-and-t...

I would suggest that just as we shouldn’t consider Twitter or Facebook as representative of the real world, the same should be applied to dating apps.

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