SirTyrion comments on The Role of Attractiveness in Mate Selection: Individual Variation - LessWrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 25 April 2015 04:54:09PM 0 points [-]

I’m sorry fo the delay but I came across these articles accidentally through google and long after its date of publication. Not even knew this website until recently.

I guess you're not interested in perform more analisys about mate choice, since you're mathematician and I guess you were focused mainly on just developing statistical analysis of data.

Anyway speaking as someone with an education in evolutionary biology, I feel that it was needed a synthesis of descriptions of human mating systems. Quantifying the shape and strength of mating preferences is a vital component of the study of sexual selection and reproductive options, but the influence of experimental design on these estimates is unclear sometimes in most studies I've been reading.