A fascinating insight into on-line mate selection.

A random attack on Google unearthed this little gem…

 What Makes You Click? — Mate Preferences and Matching Outcomes in Online Dating.

Some of the insights it gives you into the dating behavior of on-line Americans is fascinating. I’ll give you a few of the highlights now though.

• A 5’6” tall man needs to earn an extra $175,000 dollars to be as attractive as a man 6′ tall.
• Men really don’t like tall women.
• Men don’t care much about a womans educational level or income is. In fact they prefer a slighlty less educated woman.
• Women prefer men who are slightly more educated than themselves.
• Men prefer an underweight BMI of 17 (emaciated, technically) at least in photos.
• Women prefer men to be slighlty too heavy with a BMI of 27.
• Asians seem to be the least picky about interracial dating.
• White women seem to be the most picky about interracial dating
• Genderwise, women are less likely to be interest in interracial dating.
• Black males were the most open to interracial dating.
• Asian men seem to be rated as the least attractive by women (sorry).
• A woman with long blond hair is considered more attractive than one with short dark hair.
• Red haired men are at a disavantage.
• Women prefer the standard male haircut (reasonably short). Long and curly does worst.
• Money really does make men more attractive. But not women.

So, no major surprises there then. It’s worth a read. Some of the more interesting observations are about the income increases needed tp make Black, Hispanic and Asian men equally attractive to white women: $154,000, $77,000 and $247,000 respectively. What women have against Asian men I’m not sure!