kind of bizzare that men thought happy men would be the most attractive to women but women apparently think happiness is cringe and prefer men who look bored and dead

@icedquinn
No... this is precisely what I would have expected. Women have no evolutionary pressure to select for happy men. They evolved to select for successful and powerful men. That's pretty much it. Men's emotions don't play much of a role in that. The slight pride uptick is more of a byproduct of successful men.

On the other side of the coin, the evolutionary pressure on men is to protect women and ensure their happiness, because men's goal is to make women faithful to them. So from the start, women being happy is what men want.

@alyx @icedquinn

@alyx @Ashalam @icedquinn @alyx there was a really good response to this chart by @ceo_of_monoeye_dating but I'm too tired to be bothered to dig it up right now

@roboneko @Ashalam @alyx @icedquinn tl;dr "Dating site statistics sample people who remain on dating sites, and not the general population."

@ceo_of_monoeye_dating @roboneko @icedquinn @Ashalam
So is the general idea that women on dating sites just happen to be far worse people than women in the general population?

@alyx @roboneko @icedquinn @Ashalam That is one way to interpret it. There's lots of interpretations of this, but none of them are "this is the general dating population."

@ceo_of_monoeye_dating @roboneko @icedquinn @Ashalam
I think that's wishful thinking.

@alyx @roboneko @icedquinn @Ashalam Proper sampling matters. When your sample is flawed, you need to acknowledge it. Extrapolating to the general populace is not possible here.