That OkCupid data blog was, as it turns out, like a lot of pop social science of its era, both empirically wrong and bad for the world.
atticus goldfinchI think it's very counter-intuitive, but I think a lot of men see the space of "attractive men" as much smaller than the space of "attractive women", and I'd maybe even argue it's smaller than what women see the "attractive-women" space as. iow, they believe it is easy to be ugly and unwanted.