Nearby in this thread, gwern gave an example of how an attractiveness rating can be influenced by factors other than actual subjective attractiveness to the rater… and how those factors can be related to, yes, race. If after reading his comment you’ll still think you know an unambiguous way to interpret the post-control data that OkCupid published, I’d really like to hear it. To me the whole situation looks more like a trainwreck.
Nearby in this thread, gwern gave an example of how an attractiveness rating can be influenced by factors other than actual subjective attractiveness to the rater… and how those factors can be related to, yes, race. If after reading his comment you’ll still think you know an unambiguous way to interpret the post-control data that OkCupid published, I’d really like to hear it. To me the whole situation looks more like a trainwreck.