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> ... for a girl to be considered really beautiful to me, she should fall at least two standard deviations above the norm

> ... [in intelligence] I will settle for someone a mere one standard deviation above the normal

Yeah, that would do it. Nothing to learn here.

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> Let's make the rather conservative assumption, then, that a girl would go out with someone if and only if they were at least one standard deviation above her idea of average

At least he's not that picky about how picky his girl friends should be.

Well obviously, nobody wants to date someone who is picky. :)

Annoying, unattractive nerd sets standards too high, news at 11.

The meme is "Film at 11"

I don't see the problem with setting your standards high if your fine with either outcome.

And of course, he forgot to take into account selection effects. You don't meet and go on dates with random people, you meet and go on dates with people similar enough to you to be in your social circle.

Or whoever swipes right (left? I don't know) on Tinder, or whoever emails you on dating websites. Going on dates with random people that exist outside of your social circles feels like it's more normal than perhaps it once was. At least in areas that are populous and transient enough that you don't have that two to four degrees of separation factor that you get in small towns and college campuses.

Extremely beautiful women are neither on Tinder or on online dating sites. They are walking down runways, being photographed, or acting in films.

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