Dating out of league

But people do not seem universally locked into them—and they can occasionally find success escaping from theirs.The key, Bruch said, is that “persistence pays off.”“Reply rates [to the average message] are between zero percent and 10 percent,” she told me.If you contacted a much less desirable person, their desirability score would rise; if they contacted you then your score would fall.

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You’re at a party and you see someone cute across the room.

Her advice: People should note those extremely low reply rates and send out more greetings.

Michael Rosenfeld, a professor of sociology at Stanford University who was not connected to this study, agreed that persistence was a good strategy.