Do women really want a muscular millionaire with a Mercedes, as Judge Nismo suggests?
Indeed, when we use science to quantify just how rare the men women claim to be seeking are, we find some peculiar numbers.
To summarize, she wants the best guy out of 40 - for three statistics. That means that unless you are the best guy out of 64,000 (40 to the power of 3, or the 99.998 percentile), you will fall short of her expectations. Isn't TV great?
I've often wondered how it is that I can be in the top 1% of income and the top 1% of height (meaning only 1 in 10,000 men is as tall AND earns as much), and I'm often struggling as much as the next guy. This explains why. They still imagine a guy 6.4 times as rare as me. I'm only in the 99.99 percentile, they want 99.998.
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/female-standards-of-male-attractiveness-are-way-unrealistic-2013-4
This was referenced by Evan Marc Katz, in "Why Don't Men Hate Being Single As Much as Women Do?", which has a fantastic discussion that was filtered by Evan and offers hours of interesting reading.
Indeed, when we use science to quantify just how rare the men women claim to be seeking are, we find some peculiar numbers.
To summarize, she wants the best guy out of 40 - for three statistics. That means that unless you are the best guy out of 64,000 (40 to the power of 3, or the 99.998 percentile), you will fall short of her expectations. Isn't TV great?
I've often wondered how it is that I can be in the top 1% of income and the top 1% of height (meaning only 1 in 10,000 men is as tall AND earns as much), and I'm often struggling as much as the next guy. This explains why. They still imagine a guy 6.4 times as rare as me. I'm only in the 99.99 percentile, they want 99.998.
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/female-standards-of-male-attractiveness-are-way-unrealistic-2013-4
This was referenced by Evan Marc Katz, in "Why Don't Men Hate Being Single As Much as Women Do?", which has a fantastic discussion that was filtered by Evan and offers hours of interesting reading.