Mysteries of dating : East Asian women could also date white men ; )

kimiik
November 08, 2007, 01:48 PM posted in General Discussion
GENDER DIFFERENCES IN MATE SELECTION: EVIDENCE FROM A SPEED DATING EXPERIMENT RAYMOND FISMAN / SHEENA S. IYENGAR / EMIR KAMENICA / ITAMAR SIMONSON

Slate DalilyPodcast : [...]We found no evidence of the stereotype of a white male preference for East Asian women. However, we also found that East Asian women did not discriminate against white men (only against black and Hispanic men). As a result, the white man-Asian woman pairing was the most common form of interracial dating—but because of the women's neutrality, not the men's pronounced preference. [...]

http://www.slate.com/id/2177637/nav/tap3/

http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/emir.kamenica/documents/genderDifferences.pdf

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goulnik
November 08, 2007, 02:09 PM

meanwhile, other research conducted at Queen's University, Ontario (Canada) was showing that appearances can be deceptive

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kimiik
November 08, 2007, 02:48 PM

[...] we found that men did put significantly more weight on their assessment of a partner's beauty, when choosing, than women did. We also found that women got more dates when they won high marks for looks from research assistants, who were hired for the much sought-after position of hanging out in a bar to rate the dater's level of attractiveness on a scale of one to 10. [...] No surprise here !

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kimiik
November 08, 2007, 06:01 PM

Btw, here is the podcast : http://media.slate.com/podcast/Slate071108_DatingGame.mp3

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TaiPan
November 08, 2007, 06:31 PM

So women are racist... I knew it! There's a popular book that applies economic theory to a wide range of subjects. It's called Freakonomics. It's intelligent and extremely entertaining. I highly recommend it.