I think a lot of people try to attract too broad an audience while dating. From my experience, if you are 60% attractive to 50% of potential partners that’s going to result in a lot fewer dates than being 80% attractive to 20% of people, because it’s a winner takes all game.

— mrobbyg (@bobbygforlib) June 8, 2020

Agreed completely.

I’m not attractive to most women. The vast majority, actually — though I think it has increased a good deal recently because of my high level of physical fitness now.

Anyway, I think I’m only attractive to any extent to about 10% of women, and to a subset of those 10% I’m very attractive indeed. Attempting to go after that other 90% would’ve been a huge mistake, because there are millions of women in that 10% who really dig me potentially.

I think that’s where a lot of people go really wrong in dating, being mildly appealing to everyone instead of attempting to be desirable to the people most likely to get you on a deep level.

Why do you need studies to tell you something so obvious?

Can’t you see that successful countries wore masks?

Why do you need studies when practicing doctors successfully treated patients with HCQ?

Something very defective with modern intellectualshttps://t.co/nzt2hMaaoA

— Trishank Karthik Kuppusamy (@trishankkarthik) June 5, 2020

Sometimes, things that are “obvious” are just wrong, but these days our intellectual class has proceeded greatly too far along the quantification path, ignoring all else including the precautionary principle, common sense, and all signs that they are wrong as long as the spreadsheet numbers look fine.

Part of that is the laundering of political views through “expertise” and part of it is just that it’s a way of directly asserting power. But all of it makes me angry.