Studying Desirability and Mate Pursuit in Online Dating

This chapter explores how online dating data is used to study the idea of someone being out of your league. It discusses the categorization of users by desirability and the use of network science techniques to determine how far daters tend to go when pursuing a partner. The chapter also delves into the finding that people tend to pursue mates who are just 25% more desirable than themselves and the implications this has on the dating market.