• Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 months ago

    ngl men dating people their age would be a nice change

    cause the situation now is really hammering home that if men could go lower, they would. 20 was the minimum age in that study.
    Picture of a graph titled "Ages of Partners Men & Women Find Most Attractive". The data for women shows they tend to find people their age (or a bit younger) most attractive, while the data for men shows that no matter their age, they all tend to find partners around 20 most attractive.

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      5 months ago

      That chart isn’t of “how low” the men in the study would go, it the age of the women ranked most attractive by the men in the study. Still isn’t great, agreed, but it is talking purely about physical attractiveness.

      Here is the chart from the same study about what age ranges the men in the study said they would find acceptable to date. By 28 years old, 20 is no longer within the field.

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      5 months ago

      You just made a lot of assumptions not supported by the science.

      All this shows is physical attraction. When shown pictures of random women to then rate the physical attractiveness of.

      That’s it. Nothing about who these men actually wanted to date. Someone can be very physically attractive to you and you can simultaneously not want to date them.

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        5 months ago

        Someone can be very physically attractive to you and you can simultaneously not want to date them.

        Yep, talk to a 10/10, then opens her mouth saying she wants to vote for Trump and completely flaccid. I suspect the reverse also happens.

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      5 months ago

      Oof.

      I (a man who doesn’t date me) personally feel like past five or so years in either direction it tends to rapidly fall off. Look weird and hard to relate to.