TimS comments on Interpersonal Entanglement - Less Wrong

43 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 January 2009 06:17AM

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Comment author: cousin_it 16 December 2011 05:31:51PM *  2 points [-]

research which has shown that when a female chases a male, she is more likely to end up with a higher quality mate

Was it an observational study or a controlled trial? If the former, then correlation doesn't obviously imply causation here. For example, the female's decision to chase could depend on the quality of the male.

Comment author: TimS 16 December 2011 06:24:51PM *  6 points [-]

The Gale-Shapley solution the the stable marriage problem shows that suitors get their best choice among stable pairings. It seems like a reasonable conclusion to draw that women who behave as suitors will get a "better" match than those who are passive.