CronoDAS comments on Love and Rationality: Less Wrongers on OKCupid - LessWrong

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Comment author: CronoDAS 13 October 2010 10:36:49PM *  2 points [-]

I wonder... is this a "social proof" a.k.a. Magnetic Girlfriend effect? (If you have one girl hanging on you, others become interested?)

Edit: Rephrased to fix ambiguity.

Comment author: cousin_it 14 October 2010 12:14:53AM *  3 points [-]

Definitely not. If I shake myself free and go to another room alone, it works just as strongly.

Comment author: RobinZ 14 October 2010 01:39:04AM 4 points [-]

Warning: "Magnetic Girlfriend" is a TV Tropes link.

Comment author: Sniffnoy 13 October 2010 11:10:24PM *  0 points [-]

EDIT: This comment is obsolete; it was based on an ambiguity that has been fixed.

Not clear what distinction you're drawing - if the latter is the effect itself, then it describes it by definition; the question is what's the cause, of which "social proof" is one possible. Or how were you thinking about it?

Comment author: CronoDAS 13 October 2010 11:18:02PM *  1 point [-]

Fixed, sorry. (Two different names for the same basic thing.)