"Where Have All the Good Men Gone?" Gendered Interactions in Online Dating

An examination of the gender distributions showed both to be unimodal, but the mean was greater for men’s evaluations of women (Y = 2.84) than women’s evaluations of men (Y = 2.13), and the skew was greater for women’s evaluations of men (σ = .70) than for men’s evaluations of women (σ = .61; see Table 1 and Figure 2).

So I took Figure 2 and used the very scientific tool that is GIMP's pixel counter to compare the areas. The result I got was that 89% of men were rated below average.

Bonus meme from the study:

• 36% of men reported athletic (also fit, jacked) body type, compared with 16% of women. 28% of women reported overweight (also obese, fleshy, big boned, full figured) body type, compared with 10% of men.

I'm a researcher so I have this data from a speed-dating study. In my study of (mostly) college students, 49% of women and 74% of men were rated as below average by the opposite gender. Surprisingly close!