It's a real shame that the only person seriously doing this kind of research is a literal prostitute who can never be taken seriously.
Imagine if some state government dropped some pocket change on this. Have the State University of Nowhere, Kansas poll its students over each of the three methodologies, pay 'em $5 and a slice of pizza to participate, and then compile and submit the results to a journal.
You could probably unfuck the dating market quite a bit by publishing a machine learning model that takes a picture of you and outputs 5-10 pictures of what your 'league' looks like.