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07/31/2007: "Prostitution forms model for modern dating"

Dan Ariely of M.I.T., one of the researchers who computed how much extra money a male online dater needed to compensate for being the wrong height or the wrong race, figures that men can get by with less money if they’re trying to win over a colleague at work or someone at a social event. “ My guess,” he told me, “is the race wage gap would be there in every way of meeting people, but it might be lower in more social exchanges when people have more or different information about each other.”

[ So people can be bought into liking someone with no compatibility, because everyone's afraid of the money monster. This means pretty girls with ugly guys, spreading their legs for money. Sounds like a terrible plan. ]

http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/04/16/for-a-change-good-news-on-dating/#more-65