Comments by "seneca983" (@seneca983) on "" video.

"designing the algorithm around women" I don't think Tinder's algorithm is somehow designed with women in mind. It's just the kind of app that tends towards hookups and focusing on looks which means there's an oversupply of men and an undersupply of women. It's mostly due to human nature and there isn't an easy way to avoid that with just algorithm design.
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@patrickrannou1278 "But even if you changed the ratio to 10% guys and 90% girls, this would not solve anythimg" I would bet that with that kind of ratio a great majority of guys would have far easier time.
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@hitfan2000 "the problem is that single men far outnumber single women (in the under 40 category)" It's mathematically impossible for single men to "far" outnumber single women. There are slightly more men born than women but the difference isn't that large and probably isn't the reason why men have it harder on e.g. dating apps. And on average women might have older partners more often than the other way around and some such pairs straddle your cutoff of 40 but I don't think that effect is so large either. I think a much bigger part of the reason is that men are, or at least want to be, more promiscuous than women. (Well, I'm simplifying a bit here but I'm sure you get what I mean.)
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@hitfan2000 "So if a 20 year old woman is in a long term relationship with a 30 year old man..." This age difference seems higher than average and this particular example wouldn't create imbalance in the "up to 40" group you used in your previous comment since both still fall within that group. "You might believe that sex ratios are a non-factor, but the dating apps don't lie." I'm fairly confident that even if the sex ratio was 50/50 that would only slightly mitigate the difference of the experience of men and women on dating apps. Most of the same dynamic would remain due to the different behaviour of the sexes. "The millions of young men in China who have no hope of ever finding a wife bears this out." The sex ratio in China is far more skewed than in e.g. North America or Europe. This video didn't really touch on dating app experience in China so I'm not focusing on that.
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@hitfan2000 I'm fairly sure the difference in the behaviour between men and women is bigger than that 3%-point excess (over 50/50 split). Based on a short googling men haven't had it that easy on Tinder in Russia, unless one is good-looking. This is despite Russia having excess of women (largely due to men having a dramatically lower life expectancy than women) unless one is good looking.
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@asdf-fl1ib Did you mean to reply to me or hitfan2000? You tagged me but you're quoting something that hitfan2000 wrote.
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@asdf-fl1ib "You used the quote, in post." Yeah, I quoted him (hitfan2000) to reply to him. Now it's a bit unclear to me whether you're commenting on something I wrote or only on what he wrote.
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