Most men achieve bad results because they are just bad at cold approach.
Do you think it is easier to get better at app swiping and social media DMing or cold approach?
If someone gets good at app swiping and arranging dates via DM, then they will still need people skills for their first dates. Even with adequate social skills, it is easy to rack up "one date, no sex, no second date" type dates from the swipe apps and the DMs.
I don't believe in app swiping at all.
The skill set needed to be a good approacher vs. a good first and second date performer is slightly different, but there's some overlap.
Team in-person social skills here.
It is a numbers game but you can rig the numbers in your favor. IMO, it is an unfair advantage once done right.
It is and isn't a numbers game.
I would say that if you have at least adequate social skills, it does become a numbers game to find enough volume to find the right people. It's possible to cut down on that volume if only approaching women who give good IOIs. IOI giving is a fading art with Millennials and now with Gen Z. I even noticed that older Millennial women were getting worse at body language signaling in the early 2010s as compared to the mid-2000s.
Most men can't rely on IOIs alone. I prefer getting IOIs but have approached without IOIs.
Someone with poor social skills like Eliot Rodger would not have been able to do enough approaches to find interest. Rodger did very few approaches in his lifetime. If a man lacks key fundamental skills, increasing volume isn't going to make any difference.
For most men (except the top tier), it's a matter of how well they can withstand rejections until they find some results. Enough quantity of soft rejections, IHABs, etc. will be traumatizing and discourage some men.
It's because you need to approach an absurd amount of girls to get good at it.
cold approach is lower investment than night game but higher return than online dating.
Agree. When you use the term "cold approach", I think you are referring to non-bar cold approaching. Plenty of men approach strangers in bars and nightclubs, which I call cold approach. Cold approach can be done in bars, nightclubs, at random events, non-bar retail venues, and even after fitness classes and co-ed sports league games.