Very little about modern dating is conducive to building a sense of self-worth, but being a girl on Tinder is at least good for one thing: you’re probably going to get quite a lot of likes. Casual Tinder users have known for years that if a girl consecutively likes a bunch of profiles, there’s a good chance that most of them will like her back. Unfortunately, science has just proven that this may not be down to your Kylie Jenner Lip Kit and handheld selfie lamp upping your profile pic game. It’s because the men of Tinder are, for the most part, compulsive right-swipers. Their findings, reported by the Washington Post , reinforce what many Tinder users know anecdotally: that women are overwhelmingly more discerning than men. While the fake male profiles only matched with other users 0. The researchers postulate that women are more picky on Tinder, only liking the profiles of men they’re attracted to, whereas men play a brutal numbers game by liking everyone in sight. To make matters worse, men are less likely to send messages: only seven percent of men who matched with a fake profile sent a message, compared with 21 percent of women. This creates a horribly counterproductive feedback loop, wherein women become more picky because everyone they like seems to like them back—and men, faced with increasingly selective women, drop their standards even further.
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