The issue here isn't with psychology in general, but with longitudinal survey data and the subfields that rely on it. It's a problematic data source at best, but it's what's available.

Not in this study, but a quick poke on Google Scholar shows that Meltzer has published other work in that vein. Still surveys, even smaller sample sizes, but it does go after self-rating and spouse-rating.

Except that the subjects were recruited from FL, OH, and TN. They weren't even recruited by SMU researchers, since this is a meta-analysis.

She has other studies looking at correlates with self-rating and spouse-rating, but this study appears to be done with third-party attractiveness ratings.

My personal thinking is that one option would be to replicate the "reply frequency" feature of some services, except for senders. So, like black and greys here: you'd get greyed or pushed towards the bottom of the inbox or whatever if your messages, on average, get below X replies per message sent. This would…

However, this is all complicated by Meltzer's own earlier work that showed a correlation between wives' self-evaluation of their own attractiveness and self-reports on marriage satisfaction from both spouses (though in that study, the association goes poof once you control for frequency of intercourse, which is pretty…

I don't agree with your strategy for combating the problem, but I'm not going to discuss that here, because there's a much more important point:

Pull-ups are a strict vertical pull recruiting primarily upper body strength (lats, biceps, triceps, traps, deltoids, iirc). If you were climbing a vertical or near-vertical cliff surface, you're usually going to have a fair bit of leg and other core strength involved. There are many situations where you use only…

Hmm. But, even in those cases, they don't generally assume the women are prostitutes, right? That seemed different / unusual to me, and I figured some element of Italian life / culture / immigration / human trafficking or something was at work.

This is an impressive (and seriously depressing), detailed list.

This gives me an idea! Why not highlight unsolicited messages with a color indicating the rate at which that account's messages are replied to? It would discourage spam messaging and is at least as justified / useful as the reply-rate indicators that many services show on profiles now. Or is this already being done…

The data suggest that AAW, as a population, do not show any ethnic preference when accepting dates from AAM and WM, though they bias in favor of those two groups over other ethnicities. I suspect, however, that a small group of AAW show a strong preference for WM, but most AAW shows a slight preference towards AAM,…

To be fair, this discrepancy tends to be more noticeable in areas with a low asian population. The larger the percentage of the dating pool made up of non-asians, the more dramatic the dating pool ratio difference is going to be. Assuming (inaccurately, but it makes the math easy) that 0% of AAM date WF and that AAW…

"As to your second paragraph, do you think it's rational for an AAW to greatly/exclusively prefer White men when there are lots of AAM around?"

There's a big difference between feeling positive because someone finds you attractive (perfectly normal) and feeling you "made it" because a certain demographic thinks you're hot (has severely negative long-term consequences).

It's unfortunately pretty easy for an AAM to believe that AAWs are at fault for IR dating pool discrepancies. I'd like to pretend to be a paragon of awesome, but in my early, post-college 20's, it definitely played through my mind. For men in general, it's a rough time to date, and for AAMs, they're likely leaving a…

"They've "made it" because White guys find them hot"

re: chronically single: I don't believe the least successful participants in any market are particularly representative of the market as a whole. For example, asian americans presently have the highest percentage of their population in the long-term unemployed category, but I in no way believe we're worse off in the…

Except that my core argument regarding the "privilege" component (versus the "responsibility" component, which I called "bias" before — this nomenclature is better) is that the AAW dating pool ratio advantage is absolutely, resolutely trumped by the generic male dating advantage. I'm all for women making advances,…

It is true that it's less common, in general, for an AAM to date a caucasian female than for an AAW to date a caucasian male. However...