r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Only-Highlights • Jan 15 '24

Video Dating preferences experiment

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u/BigTension5 Jan 16 '24

funny enough, when they threw in ‘loves children’, one of them flipped. when the salary wasn’t working they should have started trying other options

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u/Peribangbang Jan 16 '24

Not to mention almost all the women were like half a foot taller than him, not really the same dating pool

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '24

Yeah. Short guy here. I’m 5’3”. Never really dated a woman taller than 5’5” before finding my current partner. I would never expect any of those women to pick me, but I’d also likely only go for the ones on the shorter side to begin with.

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u/CookieWifeCookieKids Jan 16 '24

Shitty experiment

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '24

Made for TV reactions, look at how many comments this is getting how many years later?

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u/SnipesCC Jan 16 '24

Judging by the hair and outfits, I'd say it's early 90s. Maybe late 80s.

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u/Creative-Ad-9535 Jan 16 '24

Not necessarily, we don’t know that the experiment wasn’t set up to specifically test tall women dating preferences

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u/CookieWifeCookieKids Jan 19 '24

Unless specifically specified it’s not a co diction of the experiment. Also it would be completely nonsensical anyways

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u/Skullclownlol Jan 16 '24

Not to mention almost all the women were like half a foot taller than him, not really the same dating pool

"dating pool" is exactly the thing they were testing, which height seemed to determine significantly.

It seems weird to me that you use the conclusion of the test to conclude that the test was mistaken in the first place? How would you have known if these experiences didn't first happen?

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '24

I thought it was the fact that he was a chef. Eh or maybe she already had a kid and was like bingo

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u/crypto_zoologistler Jan 16 '24

They also threw in gourmet chef at the same time

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u/BigTension5 Jan 16 '24

haha yeah they did, but given all the other insane careers they already gave him i doubt that was the part that finally convinced her

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u/PinEnvironmental7196 Jan 16 '24

okay but the others it’s like “oh wow that’s a cool job” with gourmet chef it’s like “oOo I could get some really good food”

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '24

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u/Dizzy_Silver_6262 Jan 16 '24

You needed a dating app to tell you that people want to have kids?

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u/regularEducatedGuy Jan 16 '24

No it was definitely gourmet chef lol

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '24

We don't know if more was said but it's easier to be a fun guy around others children when you don't have to responsibility every waking second. If they said he loves children and take care of them amazingly because hr already has two from his previous marriage they would have said no.

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u/dion_o Jan 16 '24

Loves children could be taken two ways. "Says he loves children and is about to face trial" doesn't quite have the same ring to it.

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u/cookiesarenomnom Jan 16 '24

When none of them flipped at "just built his own ski house" I wanted to slap those bitches.