## Attraction Inequality and the Dating Economy ### Attraction Inequality and the Dating Economy  #### Metadata * Author: [[Bradford Tuckfield]] * Full Title: Attraction Inequality and the Dating Economy * Category: #articles * URL: <https://quillette.com/2019/03/12/attraction-inequality-and-the-dating-economy/> #### Highlights * Some enterprising data nerds have taken on the challenge of estimating Gini coefficients for the dating "economy." * If these findings are to be believed, the great majority of women are only willing to communicate romantically with a small minority of men while most men are willing to communicate romantically with most women. The degree of inequality in "likes" and "matches" credibly measures the degree of inequality in attractiveness, and necessarily implies at least that degree of inequality in romantic experiences. It seems hard to avoid a basic conclusion: that the majority of women find the majority of men unattractive and not worth engaging with romantically, while the reverse is not true. Stated in another way, it seems that men collectively create a "dating economy" for women with relatively low inequality, while women collectively create a "dating economy" for men with very high inequality. ^ec0eb5 # Attraction Inequality and the Dating Economy  ## Metadata - Author: [[Bradford Tuckfield]] - Full Title: Attraction Inequality and the Dating Economy - Category: #articles - URL: https://quillette.com/2019/03/12/attraction-inequality-and-the-dating-economy/ ## Highlights - Some enterprising data nerds have taken on the challenge of estimating Gini coefficients for the dating “economy.” - If these findings are to be believed, the great majority of women are only willing to communicate romantically with a small minority of men while most men are willing to communicate romantically with most women. The degree of inequality in “likes” and “matches” credibly measures the degree of inequality in attractiveness, and necessarily implies at least that degree of inequality in romantic experiences. It seems hard to avoid a basic conclusion: that the majority of women find the majority of men unattractive and not worth engaging with romantically, while the reverse is not true. Stated in another way, it seems that men collectively create a “dating economy” for women with relatively low inequality, while women collectively create a “dating economy” for men with very high inequality.