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ChristianKl comments on A Rationalist Guide to OkCupid - Less Wrong Discussion

24 Post author: Jacobian 03 February 2016 08:50PM

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Comment author: ChristianKl 14 February 2016 07:56:43PM 0 points [-]

Only 1 in 5 potential matches met your standards for appearance, but 1 in 3 met your standards based on what they wrote,

Not really as he likely prefiltered them by match percentage. The 300 profiles at which he looked are likely woman with a high match percentage and the match percentage more likely signals that they written values are the same as it signals meeting standards for appearance.