Quote: (12-11-2011 12:15 AM)5K2D Wrote:
Quote: (12-10-2011 11:47 PM)ManAbout Wrote:
Quote: (12-10-2011 11:27 PM)5K2D Wrote:
Yeah, but that analysis glosses over a few details:
1. I'm pretty sure the game of Indian men on average is worse than the game of white men on average, so that likely accounts for part of the difference.
2. Even if the difference is due to race judgment alone rather than lifestyle or game factors, it's still not that big of a deal. Yeah, that's roughly 2/10 that an Indian guy will get vs 3/10 for a white guy, but since this a numbers game that's really not much of a disadvantage. In other words, the disadvantage is statistically significant but functionally insignificant.
1. So then how do you account for the fact that the response rate from Indian females to Indian males is the LOWEST among all women? Even White women have a better response rate to Indian males!
2. Indian women respond almost twice as often to white males than they do to Indian men. That is significant enough. A white male has to send 3 emails to get one response from them, while an Indian guy has has to send more than 5.
Hm. You have a point with #1; I didn't think to compare the response differences between Indian women and white and other women. A possible alternate explanation is that Indian girls tend to get messaged more by traditional Indian guys (who probably suck much more than nontraditional Indians) than white women (who get more nontraditional/liberal Indians), depressing the response rate to Indian guys for Indian girls compared to white girls.
#2 could also be explained by Indian women getting lots of gameless traditional Indians.
That said, none of these counterexplanations have hard data support.
I just checked OKCupid for the Indian women in my area, and I gotta say, with the exception of three women (who are 7-8) the rest are all FUGs. I wouldn't be too worried.