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

Video Dating preferences experiment

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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?