army1987 comments on LW Women Submissions: On Misogyny - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 15 April 2013 03:53:14PM 3 points [-]

usually already taken

Note Berkson's paradox in action: even if two desirable features are independently distributed among the general population, among the people who are neither so good that they're already in a decade-long awesome relationship with someone else nor so bad that you won't even notice them when looking for potential males those features will end up anticorrelating.