Episode 249: When are men and women most attractive?

In this episode, I'll be unpacking some of the results of the
peer-reviewed research described in the article, "Aspirational
pursuit of mates in online dating markets" (link below). After
analyzing the private, anonymous behavior of hundreds of
thousands of heterosexual men and women on a popular dating app
across four independent metropolitan areas, the researchers
discovered a number of surprising (but consistent) findings.
Today I'll be talking about one of them: desirability as a
function of age. Apparently, women were most desirable to men at
18 years-old, and men were most desirable to women at 50
years-old. It turns out that men like younger women in large part
because women like older men.


"Aspirational pursuit of mates in online dating markets":
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aap9815


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