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Maths of Love and Sex

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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How to Make Yourself Look More Attractive

Dating is not just picking up the best looking tomato ri somebody's got like you as well. There are a few tricks and techniques that you can use to make yourself appear more attractive. One of them comes from something called discreet choice theory, which is about when you give somebody a number of options,. And in particular, something called the decoy effect. If you want to make yourself appearance as attractive as possible, when you pick a wing man or a wing woman going to a party, you should pick someon whos as similar looking to you as possible but just slightly less attractive.

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