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Bruch and her colleague Mark Newman studied "Who swapped messages with whom", on a [blank] platform in the month of January 2014. They categorized users by [blank] using PageRank, one of the algorithms behind search technology. [blank] , if you receive a dozen messages from desirable users, you must be more desirable than someone who receives the same number of [blank] from average users. Then they asked: How far "out of their league" do online daters tend to go when pursuing a partner? "I think people are optimistic realists". In other words, they found that both men and women tended to pursue mates just 25 percent more desirable than themselves. "So, they're being optimistic, but they're not..they're..they're also umm..taking into account their own relative position within this overall desirability hierarchy." And the study did have a few [blank] for people on the market: "I think one of the take-home messages from this study is women could probably afford to be more aspirational in their [blank] pursuit."

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Bruch and her colleague Mark Newman studied "Who swapped messages with whom", on a popular online dating platform in the month of January 2014. They categorized users by desirability using PageRank, one of the algorithms behind search technology. Essentially , if you receive a dozen messages from desirable users, you must be more desirable than someone who receives the same number of messages from average users. Then they asked: How far "out of their league" do online daters tend to go when pursuing a partner? "I think people are optimistic realists". In other words, they found that both men and women tended to pursue mates just 25 percent more desirable than themselves. "So, they're being optimistic, but they're not..they're..they're also umm..taking into account their own relative position within this overall desirability hierarchy." And the study did have a few more lessons for people on the market: "I think one of the take-home messages from this study is women could probably afford to be more aspirational in their mate pursuit."
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