News from the superficial world of online dating:
It turns out, women really care about men's height. I'm 5'9”, if I wanted to be as attractive as somebody who's 5'10”, right, another inch? I would have to make about $35-40,000 more a year.
This and other, deeper and more interesting, observations about human motivations and the psychological discount rate, in the Big Think Interview With Dan Ariely.
are you familiar with the okcupid oktrends blog? it is a brilliant datamine.
two random examples:
http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/your-race-affects-whether-people-write-you-back/
and
http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-democrats-are-doomed-or-how-a-big-tent-can-be-too-big/
this is amusing, but the religion stuff I found quite interesting; from here
Is this decision based on height only in America, or in Western European cultures or is it world wide? One wonders how dimintive males in other cultures fare given these standards..