On: Suspicious Discontinuities

[hammock]

Both men and women showed height above the national average. As a result I am more inclined to believe that there is selection bias in OKCupid audience (more white people, less minorities) than that there is such widespread deception going on.

[opportune → hammock]

Or it’s self reported and on average people fibbed up their height a smidge

[birdyrooster → hammock]

Exactly. Not to mention short people may have opted out of dating because they lack a perceived fitness for dating.

[gowld → birdyrooster]

Or tall people opt out of OKCupid because they can date offline.

[birdyrooster → gowld]

Or since it's so easy for tall people to date offline, they choose OKCupid because it's even easier due to the asynchronous model and network effect. They get more out of the algorithms than shorter people since more people are attracted to them.