The study, still under peer review before publication, analyzed 22,000 online daters and found that women put a premium on income and height when deciding which men to contact, said Dan Ariely, a Duke behavioral economist who worked with University of Chicago researchers on the project.
For example, the study showed a 5-foot-9-inch man needs to make $30,000 more than a 5-foot-10-inch one to be as successful in the dating pool.
Men in the study showed strong preference for women with a body mass index of 18 or 19 - “which is slightly on the anorexic side,” Ariely said. (A 5-foot-6-inch woman would need to weigh about 115 to fit that profile, according to the National Institutes of Health’s online body-mass index calculator).
And yet? Isn’t every straight man (hell, some of the queers, too!) in this city wanking to Christina Hendricks on the cover of NY Mag this week? I bet they are.
xoxo, c. hotpoint
