Toby Stuart

There's a bunch of problems with this from a scientific perspective, one of which is you choose when to be on a dating site.

And so if it's crappy weather out, you have fewer alternatives.

And so there you're way more likely.

A lot of variables take place.

of weed through.

She wanted to study cool.

We eventually wrote one paper on this.

But speaking of status, we did find the Benjamin Button thing, which is that at the time, OkCupid would log profile changes.

There were like height thresholds and age thresholds where people would say, get on the site at 43.

And two months later, they would be 39.

Oh, wow.

And if you were above a certain height, you actually would train.

Oh, interesting.

Which is conceivable, but not over the time intervals that we look.

But if you think about it, it's ground zero for status processes because it is a low information environment.

It's the mating market, which has always been status-based.

And you have a lot of room to probably augment or misrepresent who you actually are.

It's a signaling game, and you decide what you're going to signal, what you're going to say about yourself.

But there's another side of that that I think is super important in the status world, which is that it turns out that high status people, there is definitely stratum in affiliations.

And by the way, anything about status plays out either in Hollywood or among 10-year-olds.