Get. Hot.

In this blog post by okcupid, the writer explores the relationship between attractiveness and amount of messages received by admirers. Clearly, the more attractive users get more messages. I learned this in first grade. 2/3 of male messages go to the top 1/3 women. What I did find interesting is that women tend to rate men in the bottom 80%. I can tell you from personal experience, this is true. I'm always giving guys a 1 or 2 (out of 5) without even reading the profile (please note, the recipient of the "rating" does not learn of it, unless you rate him a 4 or above). I tend to do this mostly when I am drunk and angry or after a bad date. Regardless, I def. rate more men very lowly than high--or even in the middle. What's interesting is that even though women rate lower, we still message men that are lower on the "attractive spectrum." So, we think they are not good enough, yet we message them more than attractive men. Once again, I can say this is probably true for me as well. I tend to message guys in the average spectrum.

In short, what I learned from this article is that we're all fucked and I have to miraculously get more attractive (top 1/3) in order to get more traffic.