Dr Paul Eastwick

These guys, they actually aren't... And girls.

There's no real long-term cost to that.

In other words, the attributes that make somebody desirable in the short term, they're just irrelevant to a person's long-term desirability.

Attractiveness makes people... Not irrelevant.

No, truly.

Correlation of zero.

with how good their partners will ultimately rate them.

In fact, if anything, some of this stuff goes in the opposite direction.

You know, all the data I've seen, all the attractiveness data I've seen.

I mean, you're describing a trend over time, and I'm pretty sure that study hasn't been done.

But just straight up, what is the attractiveness level of these people?

And I'm going to correlate that with the romantic satisfaction of their partners, how happy they are.

Oh, do I want to continue this relationship in the future?

Correlation is near zero.

Yeah, yeah.

Look, I totally get it.

And people will have experiences like what you're talking about and be like, well, then I don't buy the data.

And I absolutely get it.

I'm just like, I got to work with what's in front of me.

I will note this.