With introversion, agreeableness, and sensitivity, I wouldn’t suspect any negative correlation with conventional attractiveness (agreeableness could even have a weak positive correlation). Nerdiness and lack of socialization may be related, and even if there is a negative correlation between them and attractiveness for whatever reason, that correlation may not be particularly strong.
I would hypothesize that personality traits are at least as big a factor as looks in explaining variance in female status testing behavior. As a result, I agree with SarahC’s view that neurotypical vs. non-neurotypical status does not adequately demarcate women who ask men to buy them drinks from women who don’t. And I also disagree with Roko’s suggestion that women who don’t engage in this behavior predominantly lie in the left tail of the attractiveness distribution for age.
If pjeby’s original intent, however, was to present NT women as those most likely to engage in this behavior, and non-NT women as least likely, then I would agree with him that such a correlation is plausible. If Roko wanted to hypothesize a weak-to-moderate correlation of attractiveness and status-testing behavior, than I would agree. I just consider certain personality traits that are probably uncorrelated with beauty as having a large effect on engaging in this kind of behavior.
If pjeby’s original intent, however, was to present NT women as those most likely to engage in this behavior, and non-NT women as least likely, then I would agree with him that such a correlation is plausible.
I actually didn’t state either of the things that people are attributing to me. I simply referred to “the mostly-NT women who show up at bars and ask men to buy them drinks”.
The mostly-NT is hyphenated because it is an attribute of “women who show up at bars and ask men to buy them drinks”—and this attribution does not require any correlation. The simple fact that non-NT women are a minority, period, ensures that most of the women who do this showing up at bars and asking of drinks will be neurotypicals.
I was making a point about the selection bias effect of this on PUA models, not attempting to draw any conclusions about the likelihood of drink-asking behavior given neurotypicality. (I did suggest a negative correlation between neuro-atypicality and drink-asking behavior, however.)
People involuntarily/unconsciously test and asses others’ status all the time. Evidence of one’s status is embedded in every action, and therefore, all action can be used to determine status.
With introversion, agreeableness, and sensitivity, I wouldn’t suspect any negative correlation with conventional attractiveness (agreeableness could even have a weak positive correlation). Nerdiness and lack of socialization may be related, and even if there is a negative correlation between them and attractiveness for whatever reason, that correlation may not be particularly strong.
I would hypothesize that personality traits are at least as big a factor as looks in explaining variance in female status testing behavior. As a result, I agree with SarahC’s view that neurotypical vs. non-neurotypical status does not adequately demarcate women who ask men to buy them drinks from women who don’t. And I also disagree with Roko’s suggestion that women who don’t engage in this behavior predominantly lie in the left tail of the attractiveness distribution for age.
If pjeby’s original intent, however, was to present NT women as those most likely to engage in this behavior, and non-NT women as least likely, then I would agree with him that such a correlation is plausible. If Roko wanted to hypothesize a weak-to-moderate correlation of attractiveness and status-testing behavior, than I would agree. I just consider certain personality traits that are probably uncorrelated with beauty as having a large effect on engaging in this kind of behavior.
I actually didn’t state either of the things that people are attributing to me. I simply referred to “the mostly-NT women who show up at bars and ask men to buy them drinks”.
The mostly-NT is hyphenated because it is an attribute of “women who show up at bars and ask men to buy them drinks”—and this attribution does not require any correlation. The simple fact that non-NT women are a minority, period, ensures that most of the women who do this showing up at bars and asking of drinks will be neurotypicals.
I was making a point about the selection bias effect of this on PUA models, not attempting to draw any conclusions about the likelihood of drink-asking behavior given neurotypicality. (I did suggest a negative correlation between neuro-atypicality and drink-asking behavior, however.)
FTFY
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People involuntarily/unconsciously test and asses others’ status all the time. Evidence of one’s status is embedded in every action, and therefore, all action can be used to determine status.