What the fuck is happening

There is a shortage of straight men in New York. Due to a shortage of male attendees, some dating events in NYC charged women $100 and men $0, yet attendance still ran 3:1.

The dating market is brutal. Elizabeth Bruch, a professor of sociology at the University of Michigan analysed data from online dating. Here are some things she discovered… -Men’s desirability peaks at ages 40-50. But women’s desirability starts highest at age 18 and falls throughout their lifespan. -Both men and women pursue partners who are on average about 25% more desirable than themselves. -Women’s prospects dim as they achieve the highest level of education. -Almost no one messages users less desirable than they are. Everyone’s understanding of their place in the hierarchy is very accurate. -Men experience lower reply rates when they write more positively worded messages.

Smart guys finish last. “Adolescents with an IQ of 130 were 3-5 times less likely to have had intercourse than those with average IQ. Boys with an IQ that would qualify for intellectual disability (60) were still more likely to have had sex than those with a very high IQ (130)” — Ideas Sleep Furiously/Halpern et al., 2000.

Who are Uber drivers always on the phone to

You don’t perform on 6 hours sleep. One of the most important sleep studies ever ran a brutally simple test. People slept 4h, 6h, or 8h per night for 14 days. No all-nighters. Just “normal” short sleep. Cognitive performance was tested every two hours. By day 14: 6 hours = same impairment as being awake for 24 hours. 4 hours = same as 48 hours awake. But here’s the scary part – after day 3–4, people stopped feeling more tired. Reaction times kept slowing, attention lapses kept increasing, working memory kept degrading. But subjective sleepiness flatlined. Your brain keeps getting worse, your ability to notice it breaks. This is why chronic undersleeping feels sustainable – you adapt to feeling tired but you do not adapt to being cognitively impaired. The participants would’ve told you they felt “okay”. Objectively, they were functioning like they’d pulled an all-nighter. If you’re sleeping 6 hours and think you’re fine, you’ve probably lost calibration. Sleep need is biological. Most adults need 7–9 hours. “I only need 6” usually means “I forgot what normal feels like.” Feeling fine is not evidence you’re functioning well. Chronic sleep loss doesn’t just impair your brain – it blinds you to the impairment. — h/t @aakashgupta

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This is going to create such a shitstorm when it happens

Divorce is contagious. “People are 75% more likely to become divorced if a friend is divorced and 33% more likely to divorce if a friend of a friend is divorced. The contagion of divorce can spread through a social network, affecting friends up to two degrees removed.” — @robkhenderson

Women find men with cats to be less attractive. Straight men who reveal that they own a cat have a 5% lower ‘like’ rate from women. The ‘like’ rate for both straight & gay men who have dogs is 20% higher on average. The man photographed with a cat was viewed as less masculine, more neurotic and, ultimately, less datable. When a man asked women for their numbers, he was successful with 9% of the women he approached. When he was accompanied by a dog, he got three times as many.

Having kids is neuroprotective. “Men with two children had an estimated brain age that was 0.6 years younger than their childless peers had, and for men with three children, it was 0.7 years younger. That’s similar to the brain benefit associated with exercising 2.5 hours a week.” — @robkhenderson

Stop saying 50 is middle aged. “For US men only 1 out of 16,566 of us make it to 100. True Male US Average Lifespan = 75.1 years. Unpopular Conclusions: When 37 years old, you are middle aged. For half of us, halfway is less than 37. Stop delaying… you gon’ die :)” — @AlexHormozi

Tax the rich. “New IRS data finds that the top 0.1% of taxpayers (roughly 154,000 returns) paid $440 billion in federal income taxes in their most recent year. The bottom 80% paid $350 billion. Meaning the top 0.1% paid more than the entire bottom 80% combined.” — h/t IRS, @Rothmus , @profstonge

Women are winning the job market. “Of the 369,000 jobs the US Labor Dept says were created since last year, nearly all – 348,000 of them – went to women. Only 21,000 went to men. That means 94% of the net employment growth in the US went to women. Ninety four percent!” — @TheTinMenBlog