Dude, She’s (Exactly 25 Percent) Out of Your League(theatlantic.com) |
Dude, She’s (Exactly 25 Percent) Out of Your League(theatlantic.com) |
Though, in this case, "marriage" is more of a mathematical construct, but the math matches the result here.
White men and Asian women are consistently more desired than other users, while black women rank anomalously lower.
Bruch said that race and gender stereotypes often get mixed up, with a race acquiring gendered connotations. “Asian is coded as female, so that’s why Asian women get so much market power and Asian men get so little,” she told me. “For black men and women, it’s the opposite.”
But “what we are seeing is overwhelmingly the effect of white preferences,” she cautioned. “This is site is predominantly white, 70 percent white. If this was a site that was 20 percent white, we may see a totally different desirability hierarchy.”
The comment that "race and gender stereotypes often get mixed up, with a race acquiring gendered connotations" is interesting. Unfortunately, it implies that this is merely cultural viewpoint, but consider an actual trait: ability to grow a thick beard. Consider another: height. Height is particularly easy to demonstrate. One can simply look up average height by sex and by race.
> Across the four cities and the thousands of users, consistent patterns around age, race, and education level emerge. White men and Asian women are consistently more desired than other users, while black women rank anomalously lower.