Online Dating and the Death of the ‘Mixed-Attractiveness’ Couple

What could be the effects of online matchmaking? Today’s needull explores some effects in detail.

 To use fratboy vernacular: 7s date other 7s, and a 3 has no chance with a 10.

There is an exception, however, to this seeming rule that people always date equally attractive people: The longer two people know each other before they start dating, the more likely it is that a 3 will date a 6, or a 7 will marry a 10. 

Which is interesting to think about as dating apps, which match strangers up for dates, take over the dating world. Because if more and more people meet their future spouse on a first date, the mixed-attractiveness couple might just go extinct. 

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Pricenomics — Alex Mayyasi

The Hoaxster Who Revealed Sad Truths About America

The man went by the name of G. Clifford Prout, and he claimed to be the president of an organization called The Society for Indecency to Naked Animals (S.I.N.A.). Naked animals, he harped, were “destroying the moral integrity of our great nation” — and the only solution was to cover them up with pants and dresses.

Prout’s impassioned speech did not fall on deaf ears: within days, S.I.N.A. attracted more than 50,000 members. For the next four years, the organization and its leader topped news headlines, made the rounds on talk shows, and spurred heated debates among pundits.

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Priceonomics — Zachary Crockett

Are you Type A? Nothing to be proud of, really

There are some terms which just catch on.Over time their meaning changes and they come to signify completely different meaning. Today’s needull is about the origins of “Type A”, how and why it caught up and what it signifies today.

“The two men who coined the term ‘Type A’ in the 1960s were also goal-oriented, high achieving types. But they wanted to be Type B: easygoing, take every day as it comes type people. Because while many people now use the term Type A as a badge of honor, the two men were cardiologists, and they invented the term Type A to describe stressed patients who were at a higher risk of heart attack, stroke, and other cardiovascular conditions.

So why did this medical term become a cultural mainstay? One reason is that the idea proved very influential—the two cardiologists wrote a bestselling book about Type A behavior and their work guided future medical research.” 

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How Credit Cards Tax America

Credit cards are archaic. But, they are still thriving and are making huge money in commissions. We know the market is ripe for disruption. Waiting for Uber to happen in this industry.

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Priceonomics — Alex Mayyasi