Vaniver comments on Rational Romantic Relationships, Part 1: Relationship Styles and Attraction Basics - Less Wrong

48 Post author: lukeprog 05 November 2011 11:06AM

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Comment author: Vaniver 09 November 2011 03:14:22PM 0 points [-]

Sure, that explains the weakly negative (-.1) coefficient on 4. The real meat of the effect, though, is the positive coefficient (.4) on 1. Each person who rates you a 1 gives you about half as many messages as each person who rates you a 5 (.9), which does strongly suggest 'play up what you think will turn some people off.'