Blackpill "facial attractiveness increases match rates—by 200% for men and 155% for women"

[The Notorious SLAV]

You don't say.

Ai-Extracted Sociocultural Signals in Dating App Profile Photos and Their Impact on Matching Success

Online dating has become a social infrastructure, with over one-third of marriages originating from digital platforms. Despite its significance, our understandi

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Using data from 45,399 users on a major dating application in South Korea, we measure five dimensions of profile photos: facial attractiveness, overall mood, and indicators of social, economic, and cultural capital.

Is that a big enough sample size for Redditors? And from a non-Western country to boot.

Also, just so the bluepill chuggers can feel happy, it does say that the "mood" of the pic and the status someone was signalling did also have a substantial effect, face was just more important.

Further analyses indicate that when facial attractiveness surpasses thresholds, additional signals of social capital may yield diminishing returns, suggesting nonlinear patterns in how users process multiple visual cues. This effect is particularly pronounced in male profiles, where facial attractiveness combined with strong social capital signals results in lower-than-expected enhancement effects.

From the study itself:

Showing money and wealth apparently had the lowest effect of all of those for both genders. Brutally over for "just make money" provider bros:

Basically, if you have a good face, you don't need to show how social, popular or whatever you are and are just wasting time doing so, because you already have what people want. Anything more is just diminishing returns.

Now compare this study which used AI to analyze human behaviour, with this thesis which let AI imitate it.

Chapter 4 explores a novel methodology by using large language models (LLMs) to simulate human behavior in dating markets. We create an artificial sample of silicon agents, AI agents generated by LLMs, calibrated to mimic a real-world speed-dating experiment. These AI driven agents remarkably demonstrate human-like decision-making. For example, male agents prioritize physical attractiveness in partners, where as female agents place greater weight on intelligence, mirroring gender differences in real world.

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"Women care about intelligence bro," ffs. Bro, we all wish it was true, but it isn't, or at least not in the direction we'd like.

I mean, it's not all bad, the finding that those AI agents reinvented same-race partner preferences on their own is pretty good and a bit amusing:

These AI agents also reproduce human patterns of same-race preference. Also, incorporating latent personality traits (extroversion and openness) generate match predictions that are in line with real world data, demonstrating strong algorithmic fidelity.

And some of the other chapters there are also quite interesting:

Chapter 2 investigates whether people tend to pair with partners who are genetically similar and how such genetic assortative mating influences household outcomes. Using polygenic scores from genomic data, I find strong evidence that couples are genetically similar in traits like subjective well-being, Age at First Birth, and Number of Children Ever Born. Notably, couples that show similar genetic tendency for higher well-being and delayed childbearing accumulate greater wealth, and they are less likely to divorce, while those with similar genetic traits toward larger families have more children but lower wealth. These findings imply that genetic assortative mating may cause economic advantages or disadvantages, and even lead to wealth inequality and demographic trends.

Though that makes me feel lik it would correlate quite substantially with the effects of said same-race preference which even the AIs reinvented.

Anyway, those two scientific papers pretty nicely show why it should always be the behaviour of actual humans that's looked at first, instead of of AI agents trained to act like ones.

And just in case anyone lurking here and disagreeing with us thinks I'm cherry-picking, those two are literally among the top search results on Google Scholar when searching "facial attractiveness dating success" there with it set to only show 2025 papers and articles. This is literally what the state of that field is like right now.

 

[Smiggles]

Imho the face is the most important.

 

[deleted fren]

Trying to appeal to bluepillers is a waste of time. If you tell them there's statistically a 90 percent chance of failure, they'll tell you to just become part of the 10 percent. They live in a fairy tale.

 

[deleted fren]

Good post eitherway. Very informative. @Fat Link @Uggo Mongo might you bless him with a pin for this here truth nuke?

 

[ToBurble&Pine]

Don't be ugly is law

 

[Chud Norris72]

reddit is the primary source of evidence that we need to selectively breed humans for IQ.

 

[The Notorious SLAV]

Imho the face is the most important.

And it seems that the study is agreeing with you.

Good post eitherway. Very informative. @Fat Link @Uggo Mongo might you bless him with a pin for this here truth nuke?

Don't be ugly is law

It truly is.

reddit is the primary source of evidence that we need to selectively breed humans for IQ.

 

[Smiggles]

reddit is the primary source of evidence that we need to selectively breed humans for IQ.

 

[LeFrenchCel]

So you mean blackpillers were... saying the truth?

 

[AdolfRizzler]

so this is a scientific way to say that is beyond over for us

 

[Argenfarker]

Trying to appeal to bluepillers is a waste of time. If you tell them there's statistically a 90 percent chance of failure, they'll tell you to just become part of the 10 percent. They live in a fairy tale.

 

[honorarycurry]

Trying to appeal to bluepillers is a waste of time. If you tell them there's statistically a 90 percent chance of failure, they'll tell you to just become part of the 10 percent. They live in a fairy tale.

 

[Hevel]

lmao r/tinder on suicide watch.

 

[hatepilledandrich]

Good find