You may be asking yourselves, how much does a woman’s income affect her desirability? Turns out it doesn’t. High earners don’t inspire single men on that dating website the way they inspire single women. Instead, the quality that men cared about most when evaluating attractiveness was body mass index (BMI). They preferred a woman whose BMI was 18.5—slightly underweight—and didn’t care about her salary or her level of education. Again, it’s not that men actually value thinness in potential life partners above all else—they’re just stuck working with a limited set of comparable qualities. (Also,
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