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It kind of works like this:
Put 100 men and 100 women in a sealed room. On each person's forehead, write a random number from 1 to 10, and call that their 'attractiveness'.
They are not able to see the number on their forehead, and no-one will tell them what it is either. The game is to pair up with the highest ranked person of the opposite sex that they can.
Pretty much immediately, any nines and tens are surrounded by huge crowds vying for their attention.
If the crowds flock towards them, they know their score must be pretty damn good. If strangers flee as they approach - not so much.
People will lower their expectations when rebuffed, and raise them when surrounded. If every single person you meet wants to pair with you, you'll probably never settle for less than a ten. And thats how women feel on a site like POF! They get so much attention from guys that they wont settle for anything less the absolute best guy they think they can get. Even if in reality he is way above her!
With the amount of attention they get online they can't help being influenced by this.
I call that the coffeeshop effect. if there were 10 guys and 10 girls in a coffee shop, and each one asked out 3 girls, The 7 is going to think she's a 10 and the ugliest girl is going to think she's 3 times hotter than she actually is. Its the same shit,But dudes on dating sites be sending out hundreds of messages every day. the 1s are going to think they're 10s, and the 1/10s are going to think they're 1 in a million. Thats going to be the case as long as you have guys doing the approaching. Thats why your chances of scoring a 10 online BECOME 1 in a million... instead of just 1 in 10
